Ghost Stations
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Book
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s by the British
United Kingdom
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military historian Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny is a widely respected English military historian and author, specialising in airfields and aircraft, as well as ghost stories and mysteries. He is also a broadcaster and games inventor.-Parents:...
, containing ostensibly true ghost
Ghost
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and mystery
Mystery fiction
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stories generally connected to the RAF, airfields and other military or war
War
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connected stories.
History
Bruce Halpenny had been writing ghost stories in the 1960s and encountering ghost stories in his exhaustive research into airfield histories, when he decided they should form the subject of a special book, and so started to add to and research his “ghost-mystery” files about abandoned airfields that "murmur and whisper with ghosts". Halpenny had by 1984 become acknowledged as a respected British military historian, expert in airfield histories, and expert in "RAF ghosts", especially surrounding airfields.The author has since the 1960s been presenting evidence of paranormal activity on airfields, as well as campaigning for not just the Government to do their part and preserve a 1939-45 War
World War II
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airfield, in its original condition to let future generations see, but also for the history of each to be recorded fully and the men and sacrifice never forgotten.
Ghost Stations was officially launched at RAF Wittering
RAF Wittering
RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station within the unitary authority area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Although Stamford in Lincolnshire is the nearest town, the runways of RAF Wittering cross the boundary between Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire....
on Thursday 16 October 1986. The book took 18 months to compile and drew upon the author's knowledge and experience working in airfields and documenting their history. Ghost Stations proved a best seller and was followed by a second book, entitled, Aaargh! that was published with over 30 "ghostly and mysterious" tales, one of which was "The eerie mystery of Lightning 894". Aaargh!, was later to become Ghost Stations 2 as six more books followed over the years.
GHOST STATIONS became a trademark
Trademark
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in the late 1980s and in 2008 the new Ghost Stations series, based on the original series, was brought out. In the new series the stories had been shuffled around and merged, thus a story that was being investigated by Bruce Halpenny that was in several books in the old series, were merged into one story in one book in the new series. Also regional books were created in the new series, with Ghost Stations Lincolnshire, already for some Lincolnshire bookshops, one of their best sellers. The author's son, commercial artist
Graphic designer
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, book editor and writer
Writer
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, Baron Barrymore Halpenny
Baron Barrymore Halpenny
Baron Barrymore Halpenny is a commercial artist, executive editor, writer and historian of traditions and culture, who does work for several publications, but is best known for his book cover illustrations for Ghost Stations, for which he has also been editor for the newly released series.-Early...
had a hand in the book cover design from the original series to the new series.
The author expresses his beliefs in the supernatural:
The original series of Ghost Stations books
The original eight Ghost Stations books were:-
- Ghost Stations (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0-86303-314-8)
- Aaargh! (Paperback) - Later became Ghost Stations 2 (ISBN 978-0-907595-55-7)
- Ghost Stations 3 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0-907595-57-1)
- Ghost Stations 4 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0-907595-76-2)
- Ghost Stations 5 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0-907595-81-6)
- Ghost Stations 6 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0-907595-86-1)
- Ghost Stations 7 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-0-907595-97-7)
- Ghost Stations 8 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-900456-02-9)
The new series of Ghost Stations books
The new Ghost Stations books (as of 2008) that are published by L'Aquila Publishing-
- Ghost Stations 1 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-871448-10-8)
- Ghost Stations 2 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-871448-11-5)
- Ghost Stations 3 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-871448-12-2)
- Ghost Stations 4 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-871448-13-9)
- Ghost Stations 5 (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-871448-14-6)
- Ghost Stations Mysteries (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-871448-08-5)
- Ghost Stations Lincolnshire (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-871448-06-1)
- Ghost Stations Yorkshire (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-871448-05-4)
- Ghost Stations Germany (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-871448-07-8)
- Ghost Stations The Story (Paperback) (ISBN 978-1-871448-09-2)