AS the winter nights draw in Shanklin Library is hosting a spooky book signing event in the run up to Christmas.
Local author and journalist Gay Baldwin will be signing copies of her latest books More Ghosts and Even More Ghosts at Shanklin Library in Victoria Avenue on Saturday, December 8 between 11.30am and 1pm as part of Shanklin’s Christmas Festival.
Gay will also be giving a special free Shanklin ghostwalk with every book sold. The self-guided walk will take you around some of Shanklin’s haunted places.
The seventh book in this best-selling series contains more than 70 supernatural stories. If you read them at bedtime, do have pleasant dreams.
In this biggest book yet read of ghost trains at Whippingham, ghostly soldiers and haunted forts, spirits on a seaside pier, a haunted zoo and more ghosts at Osborne House.
No book on Ghost Island is complete without more eerie encounters at the Island’s most haunted place, the vanished mansion of Knighton Gorges.
You can read what happened when mediums made contact with the spirits there.
Gay began researching and recording ghost stories 30 years ago and published her first book, Ghosts of the Isle of Wight in 1977.
There have been six morre books in the series since then which have all been local best sellers.
Gay also devised the popular Ghost Island walks as a series of historical walks with a supernatural slant, which have introduced thousands of people to the Isle of Wight’s darker side.
As a journalist and member of the Ghost Club Society, Gay has interviewed thousands of people who have incredible and inexplicable stories of hauntings to tell.
Some of the things that go bump in the night are easily explained. Creaking timbers; skeletal branches tap tapping on window panes; owls or bats in flight after dark; mice or rats scurrying through attics or behind walls, can be the innocent origin of many a ghost story.
Not in every case however….
Check www.ghostisland.com for news, photographs and spooky stories.
