
The Peculiar Path in your inbox
Subscribe for hauntings, folklore, and lost histories from The Peculiar Path. Delivered straight to your inbox.

Subscribe for hauntings, folklore, and lost histories from The Peculiar Path. Delivered straight to your inbox.

This evening, I’d like to share a ghost story of my own. It’s drawn from my time working in photo labs, amid the hum of archaic machines and the smell of darkroom chemicals. Part memoir, part ghost story, I’ll leave…
We’re pleased to share a short story by A.G. Bestwick, inspired by the little-known Derbyshire legend of Crooker. Bestwick, whose writing draws deeply from Derbyshire’s landscape and folklore, reimagines the tale in the isolation of the Covid lockdowns