The writers

Three voices from three islands

Our authors work independently, in the places they write about. CWMK provides the press — the research, the time and the quiet distance are theirs.

Great Britain · 26 titles

L T James

Based in Buckinghamshire, England

L T James is a folklorist and former county archivist who has spent the better part of three decades collecting local ghost stories from pub regulars, station masters, and parish historians across the British Isles.

His work for CWMK draws on field notebooks, reading-room transcriptions, and long correspondences with the sort of people who still remember what their grandparents refused to talk about. He lives in a crooked cottage in North Buckinghamshire with more books than shelving.

When he isn't writing, he lectures on oral tradition at small historical societies and walks the railway lines that no longer exist.

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Ghosts of Airports and Airliners
Ghosts of British Prisons
Ghosts of British Railways
Ghosts of British Stately Homes
Ghosts of Edinburgh
Ghosts of England: St Albans
Ghosts of Historic British Battlefields
Ghosts of London Pubs
Ireland · 7 titles

G Hughes

Based in County Cork, Ireland

G Hughes writes from a farmhouse outside Kinsale, where the fog rolls in off the harbour and, according to the neighbours, never quite leaves. A graduate of University College Cork, Hughes spent years as a local journalist before turning full-time to folk history.

Hughes's volumes for CWMK are rooted in the seanchaí tradition — the Irish storyteller — and in painstaking parish-record research. The books span the island from the Wild Atlantic Way to Dublin's quays and the cathedrals of Ulster.

Hughes prefers interviews conducted over tea, notes longhand in Moleskine, and claims never to have seen a ghost personally — though, it is said, they have seen plenty of things they would rather not explain.

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Ghosts of County Cork
Ghosts of Dublin
Ghosts of Ireland's Ancient East
Ghosts of Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way
Ghosts of Irish Castles
Ghosts of Irish Pubs and Inns
Ghosts of Northern Ireland
United States · 4 titles

R R Miller

Based in Bozeman, Montana

R R Miller grew up in a ranching family in the Gallatin Valley and has been listening to strange stories for as long as he has been able to sit still for them. A former reference librarian, Miller now writes full-time on American folklore, maritime mysteries and the stranger corners of mid-century military history.

His CWMK titles range from the quiet sagebrush country of rural Montana to the tiled platforms of the New York City Subway and the classified airspace of the American Southwest. He values the primary source, the first-hand account, and the long drive to a town where something once happened.

Miller writes from a cabin outside Bozeman, Montana, with a black dog named Cinders and a very patient wife.

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Ghosts and Legends of Rural Montana
Ghosts of New York City
Haunted Ships and Submarines
The Secrets of Area 51 and the Black Projects