H.E. Bulstrode's Blog
December 6, 2021
New Collection of English Ghost Stories and Folklore
Curious England: A Guide. Volume Two.
Lavishly illustrated with well over 100 photographs (black and white in the paperback, colour in the Kindle), this second instalment in the Curious England series introduces the reader to many more lesser-known folkloric and historical curiosities of rural England, its towns and smaller cities. As in the first volume, you will encounter ghost stories; tales of devilry and witchcraft; local takes on national history; characterful carvings in wood and stone; prehistoric monuments and their associated folklore, and a curious tale or two that defy conventional classification.
Its geographical focus this time is on the West Country, although a number of Midland counties are touched upon, as well as Suffolk; you will also find a few entries on Cumbria which received more comprehensive coverage in the first guide.
Available exclusively from Amazon at
Lavishly illustrated with well over 100 photographs (black and white in the paperback, colour in the Kindle), this second instalment in the Curious England series introduces the reader to many more lesser-known folkloric and historical curiosities of rural England, its towns and smaller cities. As in the first volume, you will encounter ghost stories; tales of devilry and witchcraft; local takes on national history; characterful carvings in wood and stone; prehistoric monuments and their associated folklore, and a curious tale or two that defy conventional classification.
Its geographical focus this time is on the West Country, although a number of Midland counties are touched upon, as well as Suffolk; you will also find a few entries on Cumbria which received more comprehensive coverage in the first guide.
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July 27, 2021
Curious England: A Guide
Curious England: A Guide.
Illustrated with 113 photographs, this book, a casual and somewhat idiosyncratic guide to various folkloric and historical curiosities dotted about England’s villages, towns, and countryside, is meant primarily for the reader’s entertainment and enjoyment; it is not intended to be an academic tract. It is by no means comprehensive, as no single volume could ever hope to be, such is the vast scope of the subject matter covered within. What it will provide, however, are a few pointers respecting what to look out for, and what to be aware of, whilst you explore the areas covered within these pages. It may be said to be a travel guide of sorts, as well as a time machine; a ramshackle vehicle into the peculiar realms of folkloric memory. Thus will you encounter ghosts; curious carvings in stone and wood; enigmatic echoes of a lost pagan past; stories of vanished villages and the Devil’s many, and often incompetent, works; tall tales and prehistoric monuments, and the often deadly beauty of the English countryside.
Available exclusively from Amazon at
Illustrated with 113 photographs, this book, a casual and somewhat idiosyncratic guide to various folkloric and historical curiosities dotted about England’s villages, towns, and countryside, is meant primarily for the reader’s entertainment and enjoyment; it is not intended to be an academic tract. It is by no means comprehensive, as no single volume could ever hope to be, such is the vast scope of the subject matter covered within. What it will provide, however, are a few pointers respecting what to look out for, and what to be aware of, whilst you explore the areas covered within these pages. It may be said to be a travel guide of sorts, as well as a time machine; a ramshackle vehicle into the peculiar realms of folkloric memory. Thus will you encounter ghosts; curious carvings in stone and wood; enigmatic echoes of a lost pagan past; stories of vanished villages and the Devil’s many, and often incompetent, works; tall tales and prehistoric monuments, and the often deadly beauty of the English countryside.
Available exclusively from Amazon at
August 17, 2020
New Ghost Story Collection
A Ghost Story Omnibus Volume Two.
After almost two years in the writing, it’s finally published: A Ghost Story Omnibus Volume Two (285 print pages). Available from Amazon in both paperback and Kindle, it contains nine ghost stories spanning the ages from the ninth century to the present day. If you appreciate supernatural tales with a twist, where the past looms large, and the old gods lurk in unexpected places, then you may well find this to your taste. To find out more and read a preview, please click on the links below.
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After almost two years in the writing, it’s finally published: A Ghost Story Omnibus Volume Two (285 print pages). Available from Amazon in both paperback and Kindle, it contains nine ghost stories spanning the ages from the ninth century to the present day. If you appreciate supernatural tales with a twist, where the past looms large, and the old gods lurk in unexpected places, then you may well find this to your taste. To find out more and read a preview, please click on the links below.
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May 22, 2020
New Release: An Occult Omnibus: Collected Occult Tales 2016-2018
New Release:
An Occult Omnibus: Collected Occult Tales 2016-2018.
This Kindle omnibus brings together H.E. Bulstrode’s occult mystery novel Upon Barden Moor , as well as two occult novellas � Gwydion’s Dawn and The Cleft Owl � and the short story 3:05 am. All were originally published as standalone stories between 2016 and 2018.
Upon Barden Moor
‘A shocker of occult terror and death with near cinematic strength.�
Tweed, feathers and blood mix with Westminster skulduggery and the disappearance of a village schoolmaster in this tale of grouse-shooting Edwardian aristocrats with a taste for occult dabbling on the Yorkshire moors. Some forty or so years later, George Haddon leaves an enigmatic note, and as the mystery unfolds the reader is transported back to the events of one stifling afternoon upon Barden Moor. This is the moment with which his fate has become inextricably intertwined.
Gwydion’s Dawn
Murder, mystery and magic: a satirical journey into the occult.
Lust, mushrooms and the quest for immortality: meet Gwydion Turner, an inept, portentous, psychedelic demon raiser; a wannabe Crowley in crushed velvet. From Haight-Ashbury to Glastonbury, this eccentric figure has been known by many, but understood by few; just who, or what, is he? Is he a fraudster, or a sage? It’s for you to decide.
3:05 am
It has often been said that too much television isn’t good for you. There are, however, some things you simply have to watch, even though the consequences may be neither pleasant, nor quite what you had expected.
The Cleft Owl
A tale of occult horror, deception, and intrigue in 17th-century England.
Witness the work of a practitioner of the occult arts, a willing deceiver and interpreter of dreams, schooled in awe by a house of God rendered a charnel house by a fiery, dancing orb of light. Self-tutored in greed, and self-assured in his deceptions, Robert Tooley would have many think him able to command the dead and have them do his bidding, but as his demands grow greater, so the villagers� doubts grow deeper; there will be an end to it all, and not a pretty one.
This Kindle omnibus brings together H.E. Bulstrode’s occult mystery novel Upon Barden Moor , as well as two occult novellas � Gwydion’s Dawn and The Cleft Owl � and the short story 3:05 am. All were originally published as standalone stories between 2016 and 2018.
Upon Barden Moor
‘A shocker of occult terror and death with near cinematic strength.�
Tweed, feathers and blood mix with Westminster skulduggery and the disappearance of a village schoolmaster in this tale of grouse-shooting Edwardian aristocrats with a taste for occult dabbling on the Yorkshire moors. Some forty or so years later, George Haddon leaves an enigmatic note, and as the mystery unfolds the reader is transported back to the events of one stifling afternoon upon Barden Moor. This is the moment with which his fate has become inextricably intertwined.
Gwydion’s Dawn
Murder, mystery and magic: a satirical journey into the occult.
Lust, mushrooms and the quest for immortality: meet Gwydion Turner, an inept, portentous, psychedelic demon raiser; a wannabe Crowley in crushed velvet. From Haight-Ashbury to Glastonbury, this eccentric figure has been known by many, but understood by few; just who, or what, is he? Is he a fraudster, or a sage? It’s for you to decide.
3:05 am
It has often been said that too much television isn’t good for you. There are, however, some things you simply have to watch, even though the consequences may be neither pleasant, nor quite what you had expected.
The Cleft Owl
A tale of occult horror, deception, and intrigue in 17th-century England.
Witness the work of a practitioner of the occult arts, a willing deceiver and interpreter of dreams, schooled in awe by a house of God rendered a charnel house by a fiery, dancing orb of light. Self-tutored in greed, and self-assured in his deceptions, Robert Tooley would have many think him able to command the dead and have them do his bidding, but as his demands grow greater, so the villagers� doubts grow deeper; there will be an end to it all, and not a pretty one.
March 9, 2020
A Ghost Story Omnibus
Brought together for the first time in a single 668-page-Kindle volume - A Ghost Story Omnibus: Collected Ghost Stories 2016-2018 - all of my ghost stories from this period presented in the following order:
� The Ghost of Scarside Beck
� Old Crotchet
� Old Crotchet’s Return
� At Fall of Night
� Epona
� The Rude Woman of Cerne
� Agnes of Grimstone Peverell
Ideal, and very economical, for the Kindle binge reader. A new novel will be forthcoming later this year in both paperback and Kindle.
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� The Ghost of Scarside Beck
� Old Crotchet
� Old Crotchet’s Return
� At Fall of Night
� Epona
� The Rude Woman of Cerne
� Agnes of Grimstone Peverell
Ideal, and very economical, for the Kindle binge reader. A new novel will be forthcoming later this year in both paperback and Kindle.
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December 9, 2019
The Menace of the Somerset Levels
Welcome to the darkness of Somerset. There's more to be found here than Rees Mogg and the Wurzels.
December 8, 2019
New Ghost Story
Levelling: A Ghost Story, the latest instalment in the Tales of the Uncanny Series has now been published in Amazon Kindle and can be viewed at the following universal link:
An atmospheric ghost story from the Somerset Levels
It is late August 1975, and a pair of damselflies couple in the last rays of a summer’s day as something belches forth from the foetid depths of a Somerset ditch. Jennifer Meadham looks on, transfixed, as her husband falls apart before her, but this is only the foreshadowing of the horror that is to come. His return is her first visit, but will it also be her last?
Dr Geoffrey Meadham has maintained a lifelong silence with respect to his boyhood home and his parents, but now, it seems, his wife is about to find out why; she is about to learn the meaning of ‘levelling�.
An atmospheric ghost story from the Somerset Levels
It is late August 1975, and a pair of damselflies couple in the last rays of a summer’s day as something belches forth from the foetid depths of a Somerset ditch. Jennifer Meadham looks on, transfixed, as her husband falls apart before her, but this is only the foreshadowing of the horror that is to come. His return is her first visit, but will it also be her last?
Dr Geoffrey Meadham has maintained a lifelong silence with respect to his boyhood home and his parents, but now, it seems, his wife is about to find out why; she is about to learn the meaning of ‘levelling�.
September 26, 2019
New Ghost Story Cover Art Preview
If you should be interested, the cover art for my forthcoming ghost story - Levelling - has been revealed. To view it on my Facebook page, please click on the following link:
August 29, 2019
Kindle Countdown Deal on Horror Anthology
The Perfect Eerie Fireside Anthology.
Five ghost stories and uncanny tales set in the English West Country brought together in Anthology: Wry Out West, discounted until 4 September on Kindle in the UK and US (also available in paperback). Reviewers have described its contents as follows:
Old Crotchet: ‘A hidden gem.� (Malcolm D. on Amazon UK)
‘I loved the ending. I immediately understood why this book fell into the “dark humor� genre.� (Sandy V. on Amazon US).
3:05 am: ‘Great short� with ‘a clever build up to a very strange ending.� (Malcolm D. on Amazon UK).
Gwydion’s Dawn: ‘I found it fascinating and riveting and was most upset by my Kindle running out of battery just at a crucial moment!� (Mrs J. on Amazon UK).
‘Great writing and a fun read with an occult vibe.� (Gary Val Tenuta on Amazon US).
‘Fleshly raiments, am I glad to have discovered this wryly humorous mystery.� (D on Amazon UK).
The Cleft Owl: ‘A good story and well told with a lovely twist in the narrative.â€� (Pippa Shaw, Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ).
Agnes of Grimstone Peverell: ‘Well observed, with just enough ghastly as well as comedic moments,� (Tilly Tyler, Amazon UK).
Five ghost stories and uncanny tales set in the English West Country brought together in Anthology: Wry Out West, discounted until 4 September on Kindle in the UK and US (also available in paperback). Reviewers have described its contents as follows:
Old Crotchet: ‘A hidden gem.� (Malcolm D. on Amazon UK)
‘I loved the ending. I immediately understood why this book fell into the “dark humor� genre.� (Sandy V. on Amazon US).
3:05 am: ‘Great short� with ‘a clever build up to a very strange ending.� (Malcolm D. on Amazon UK).
Gwydion’s Dawn: ‘I found it fascinating and riveting and was most upset by my Kindle running out of battery just at a crucial moment!� (Mrs J. on Amazon UK).
‘Great writing and a fun read with an occult vibe.� (Gary Val Tenuta on Amazon US).
‘Fleshly raiments, am I glad to have discovered this wryly humorous mystery.� (D on Amazon UK).
The Cleft Owl: ‘A good story and well told with a lovely twist in the narrative.â€� (Pippa Shaw, Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ).
Agnes of Grimstone Peverell: ‘Well observed, with just enough ghastly as well as comedic moments,� (Tilly Tyler, Amazon UK).
July 12, 2019
US Paperback Offer
Amazon have discounted two of my paperbacks in the US: Anthology Wry Out West � Ghost Stories and Uncanny Tales from $10.99 to $9.62, and Uncanny Tales from the English Shires from $9.99 to $8.77. I’ve no idea how long these discounts will last. The first volume contains Old Crotchet, Gwydion’s Dawn, Agnes of Grimstone Peverell, 3:05 am and The Cleft Owl, whereas the second is home to The Ghost of Scarside Beck, At Fall of Night, Epona and The Rude Woman of Cerne. Click on the links to view.
