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.

13 Cornish Ghost Stories is a collection of spooky short stories from various Cornish authors including Kate Riordan, Marie Macneill, Roz Watkins, Jane Johnson, Emma Cowell, Liz Fenwick, Pauline Sheppard, Graham Mitchell, Joanne Ella Parsons, Tony Cowell, Emily Barr, Nicola K Smith, and Annamaria Murphy.

The introduction explains how an off-the-cuff idea in a lunch queue came to be this hardcover book filled with eerie yet transfixing tales.

Starting with The Blind Spot by Kate Riordan in which a widowed woman heads to an isolated cottage after dreaming of her late husband being there and ending with The Visitors by Annamaria Murphy in which sisters visit an old lady after trying to pick sloe, but something is spooky about her.

Each story differs in length but they are all intriguing to read and set in a fantastic county. They also feature different types of ghost stories, yes, some are spooky but most are more fascinating and surprising than anything else, plus there are illustrations to go with them too.

Overall, 13 Cornish Ghost Stories is a book you can settle down with and read as many or as few stories as you would like. You don’t have to read them in order either, this book that has no rules except enjoyment and I certainly did that. From an off-the-cuff idea has come a tremendous collection of tales.