OUT NOW: Local author Mia Thomas’ latest endeavour is a creepy collection of ghosts and poltergeists from the newspaper archives. Featuring harmless “polts” that only want to irritate their host by making noise—to the evil-minded house-wreckers hell bent on destruction. The book begins at the dawn of Victorian England and meanders its way through to the millennia, when victims of the paranormal are more often than not couples with young families in the setting of a modern council house.
Mia says: “The whole subject of ‘things that go bump in the night’ holds a morbid fascination for most of us and taps into our most primal fears. How would you cope with things you cannot see or touch, or even begin to explain? When things start happening that defy the laws of reason. You search frantically for a rational explanation—but there isn’t one.”
A fascinating read that will certainly give you the creeps. The book is 694 pages in length with images throughout. Not to be read last thing at night.
Stockists at Shildon are All Cyced Up on Church Street, One Stop Shop Byerley Road, and here at the Town Crier office. The book costs £12.99. Local delivery available. Collection in person or Royal Mail postage.
Also on sale at Bakers Newsagents & Convenience Store, Prince’s Street, Bishop Auckland.
Shildon & District's local community newspaper.
