Introduction
Hello and thank you for visiting my website.
My name is James Clark and I'm a professional freelance writer and proofreader based in London, UK.
I'm the author of several collections of local ghost stories and folklore, including the very popular book 'Haunted London'.
I also write the 'Notes From A Weird World' column for 'The Morton Report'.
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Latest News
8 February 2011: Royal Status For Ghostly Greenwich
It's amazing how you can absorb history through reading ghost stories. Admittedly, some of the finer details can sometimes be wrong (readers beware!) but the historical gist of such tales is generally accurate. Readers soon acquire a profound sense of existing within a continuum of time that wells up from the depths of the long-gone and stretches ahead into the unknown.
I was reminded of this the other day when, as part of the events marking her Diamond Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II granted royal status to Greenwich in south-east London....
Read the full article at 'The Morton Report'.
1 February 2012: 'Mysterious Mitcham' updated
I have expanded the 'Beddington Parish Church and Churchyard' section of 'Mysterious Mitcham' with more about the triangular leys said to connect this church to other significant sites, and added two maps depicting these arrangements.
These leys were conceived by author Christopher Street, who believes they form part of an intricate and highly complex arrangement of patterns called an 'Earthstar', that encompasses the entirety of London. For further information see Street's books, links to some of which appear below. (The information I used in 'Mysterious Mitcham' came from his 'Earthstars ... London, City of Revelation'.)
Read 'Beddington Parish Church and Churchyard' at: 'Mysterious Mitcham'.
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