Brief details about the "Ghostly Images" novel by Peter Townsend. It is published by LL-Publications and is also available on Amazon

2. Do ghosts really exist?

3. The Novel
• Whitby, North Yorkshire – 1894
• David Taylor didn’t believe in the
paranormal when he reluctantly became a
spirit photographer.

4. Publisher: LL
publications.com
• When ominous
shadows appear on
the photographs of
young women slain
by the Whitby
Ripper, David is
forced to think the
unthinkable.

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• Could his camera
possess psychic
powers that can
predict death and
expose a killer?

6. Whitby Abbey - featured in the novel

7. 199 Steps - mentioned in novel

8. View from top of Whitby’s East Cliff

9. Scene near the swing bridge in
Whitby

10. Vessels on the River Esk

11. Old cameras

12. Victorian photographs
with no unusual
features

13. Victorian photo with girl’s head
missing (in bright light)

14. A famous brown lady ‘ghost’
photo (Raynham Hall, Norfolk
1936)

15. The Ghostly images Story
• After their employer dies two
apprentice photographers, David
and John, are thrown out of work.

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• They fall into the clutches of
Hood, a charlatan and fake
psychic medium. Hood is aware
of the skills that David and John
possess in faking photographs.

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• He knew that a distressed girl
whose kitten had died was
reassured when given a
photograph by David of her kitten
with a white light of heaven above
its head.

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• Desperate for work David and
John believe that they have no
other choice but to accept Hood’s
offer of work.

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• David and John fake a number of
photographs, but become
increasingly troubled by the
sordid world of “spirit
photography.”

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• Lucy, a determined reporter with
the Whitby Herald, is determined
to expose Hood and the practice
of “spirit photography” in the
area.

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• Although David stubbornly
refuses to believe in the
supernatural, strange shadows
were appearing on the
photographs that he had taken of
young women.

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• At the same time David had also
fallen in love with Lucy.

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• He hadn’t faked these
photographs of the young women,
but something sinister was
happening in Whitby.

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• These women had been brutally
murdered.

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• And the murderer was now in
search of his next victim… Lucy.

26. Publisher
• LL-Publications.com

27. Author’s blog
• http://ghostlyimages.wordpress.com