FBF: 13 Cornish Ghost Stories

Cornwall is the perfect setting for tales, myths, and legends. The wild moors, the granite, the clay, the rebellious sea, and flat calm coves make the county a vast and inspirational canvas. The starry nights, needle-sharp gorse, and windswept tors and carns provide perfect backdrops to eerie full moons and ghostly goings-on. Mischievous piskies dance across our landscape, while the spectres of the past, both real and imagined, haunt our memories and our dreams.

Join Keith Wallis host of ‘The Piskie Trap’ – a podcast series exploring the folklore, history and legends from across Cornwall – as he talks to three of the authors who have contributed to the recently published book 13 Cornish Ghost Stories.

Emily Barr is a travel writer and novelist, author of YA books such as The One Memory Of Flora Banks  and bestselling thrillers like The Life You Want,  and Backpack. 

Liz Fenwick has published nine novels and two novellas taking her inspiration from Cornwall's history and landscape, and in 2017 was named "the queen of the contemporary Cornish novel" by The Guardian.

Emma Cowell is a former actress and BBC presenter and the author of books including One Last Letter from Greece, The House in the Olive Grove and The Island Love Song. 

They will be joined by co-editor of the collection Marie Macneill, writer, director, playwright and Senior Lecturer at the School of Film and Television at Falmouth University. 

Together they will be discussing their literary inspirations, the inherent ghostliness of Cornwall and the rich folkloric past that many of the stories in the collection draw upon.  

This event is part of Falmouth Book Festival running from 14-20 October. For more info visit the website www.falmouthbookfestival.com

Tickets: £8/£6

A £1 Poly Fund payment is added to each ticket sold