As promised yesterday our haunted London walks, will over the next few weeks be telling you about the haunted places in London that you can visit to enjoy Halloween.

Richard Jones, who is widely acknowledged as London’s best Ghost Walk Guide, is currently hard at work on his new book Haunted Britain, which is due for publication on Halloween 2010.

This will be Richard’s 17th book on the Ghosts of Britain and he has travelled the length and breadth of this spectred Isle researching and collecting ghost stories.

Anyway, the new book is going to be collection of brand new true ghost stories and venues, some of which have never found their way into print before.

Each of the chapters of the new book on Haunted Britain will open with a particularly atmospheric poem to set the mood.

Halloween Poems.

Poetry is a great inclusion in a ghost story telling session and it really can enhance the spookiness of Halloween.

Richard’s first book on Haunted Britain and Ireland opened with a poem he often uses to begin his Haunted London walks with.

He wrote this poem whilst sitting on the windswept ramparts of an old haunted castle in 1999. It is entitled hauntings.

Hauntings.

By Richard Jones.

1

In screaming woods and empty rooms.

Or gloomy vaults and sunken tombs.

Where monks and nuns in dust decay.

And shadows dance at close of day.

2

Where the bat dips on the wing.

And spectral choirs on breezes sing.

Where swords of ancient battles clash.

And shimmering shades for freedom dash.

3

Where silver webs of spiders weave.

And blighted lovers take their leave.

Where curses lay the spirits low.

And mortal footsteps fear to go.

4

Where death holds life in grim embrace.

It’s lines etched on the sinner’s face.

Where e’er the march of time is flaunted.

Voices cry “This place is haunted.”

Copyright 199 - 2009. Richard Jones.

We’ll bring you a few more ghostly poems in the run up to Halloween, but in the meantime why not check out all the different London walks and ghost walks that we offer?