SLEEP NO MORE: RAILWAY, CANAL AND OTHER STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL

L T C Rolt:

ISBN 10: 0855270225 / ISBN 13: 9780855270223

Published by Hassocks: Branch Line, 1974., 1974

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SLEEP NO MORE: RAILWAY, CANAL AND OTHER STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
• Publisher: Hassocks: Branch Line, 1974.
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0855270225
• ISBN 13: 9780855270223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 500 grams

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Synopsis

Mine shafts, foundries, canals, and railway tunnels are not usually associated with ghosts, but all of these unusual settings are brought into play by L.T.C. Rolt in Sleep No More, his highly effective collection of stories which was first published in 1948.

Tom Rolt was an engineering historian, whose many book credits include biographies of Thomas Telford and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, as well as the highly-acclaimed Red for Danger, a history of railway accidents and railway safety.

Rolt's first book, Narrow Boat, a classic in its own right, tells of his love for Britain's canals, a love which led to his involvement with the Inland Waterways Association.

His knowledge of Britain's industrial past and his love for the countryside around him are very evident in this collection, which includes two stories not included in the original edition and also Rolt's essay 'The Passing of the Ghost Story'. Rolt takes us on a haunted tour of the world he knew well—from Cornwall to Wales, and from the hill country of Shropshire to the west coast of Ireland—in tales which are guaranteed to make you Sleep No More.

Jacket and interior illustrations by Paul Lowe.


The Mine
The Cat Returns
Bosworth Summit Pound
New Corner
Cwm Garon
A Visitor at Ashcombe
The Garside Fell Disaster
World's End
Hear Not My Steps
Agony of Flame
Hawley Bank Foundry
Music Hath Charms
The Shouting
The House of Vengeance
The Passing of the Ghost Story

About the Author

L.T.C. Rolt trained as an engineer, but his fame rests on his classic biographies of Brunel, Telford, Trevithick and the Stephensons, in his superb volumes of autobiography (Landscape with Machines, Landscape with Canals, Landscape with Figures), his volumes of trans