Into the Wold Newton Triangle
Or another shameless new book plug!
Apologies for seeming to be like a London bus: there’s no new books from me for 12 months and then two come along within the same month!
This is my new, new book and the second in my Haunted Landscapes series of nonfiction folklore, local history and weird tales. Called The Mysterious Wold Newton Triangle: Wraiths, Werewolves & Other Weird Tales from the Yorkshire Wolds, it takes you on a road-trip of the strange and marvellous in this forgotten corner of Yorkshire.
If you are fascinated by the weird, the unexplained and the bizarre, join me on this road trip around East Yorkshire’s Wold Newton Triangle. Here you will encounter tales of the legendary werewolf Old Stinker, plus zombies, vampires, fairy folk, buried treasure, headless ghosts, screaming skulls, some very eccentric gentry, vanishing rivers, Parkin-eating dragons, the home of Christmas turkeys, England’s tallest monolith, and a grid of ley lines which may, or may not, be connected to the day a giant meteorite crashed to earth. It is a place where fact is stranger than fiction!
Here’s a brief taster…
Two female wraiths walk the streets of Flamborough village. One of them goes by the name of Jenny Gallows and wears an old-fashioned poke bonnet on her head while the other possesses neither a bonnet nor a head.
Jenny Gallows is said to be the ghost of a young woman who, during the early years of the 19th century committed suicide by throwing herself into a circular pit (some reports say it was a well) and drowned herself. According to local legend, if you run around this pit nine times, you will hear the sound of fairies. Unfortunately, when you complete the eighth circuit of the pit, the ghost of Jenny Gallows will rise from the pit and cry out, in a broad Yorkshire accent:
Ah’ll tie on me bonnet
An’ put on me shoe,
An’ if thoo’s not off
Ah’ll soon catch you!
Needless to say, one evening, back in the late 19th century, a local farmer (emboldened by alcohol) decided to put this legend to the test but rather than run around the pit, he rode around it on his horse, a bay mare. Unluckily for him (and his horse) on the eighth circuit Jenny emerged from the pit and chased him all the way back to the village, nearly catching him and at one point getting close enough to bite the mare’s flank, leaving a white patch that never faded but remained there until the horse’s dying day.
The book is available in both paperback and Kindle ebook formats on Amazon UK and US. The pricing is £8.99 // £2.99 & $10.49 // $3.67.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6XMWWSP
