Spring-Heeled Jack, Ghosts of the Road, The Runcorn Thing, My Victorian Father, The Lost Family, Don't Look Under the Bed, Devon Street's Reformed Gambler, The Lighthouse Ghoul, Bernie with the Broken Neck, The Returned Man, The Stanley Park Apparition, and many other strange tales. This was Tom Slemen's first book on the supernatural side of Liverpool, and was originally turned down by a Wirral publisher who said it would never sell. It became the best-selling local book of all time.
Brunel's Jinxed Supership, Merseyside Time Slips, Angels, The Lodge Lane Vampire, Doppelgangers, Bloody Mary, Through A Glass Darkly, Hannah Brade the Mysterious Maid, The Ghost of Brougham Terrace, Who's In the Family Grave?, Dead On Arrival, Night of the Rats, The Harlow Street Gypsy, The Bookies' Nightmare, The Black Vortex, and many, many more local tales of the supernatural.
Richard Tilly the Evil Assailant, A Marriage Made in Hell, The Legend of Mary Crane, The Green Eye of the Mersey, Spooky Jukebox, Bad Moon on the Rise, The Rings on her Fingers, the Devil at the Cavern Club, The Note to Santa, When the Ninja Struck in Liverpool, Resurrection Mary, and many more eerie tales of the paranormal.
Ghost of the Abercromby Vaults, The Crying Boy Jinx, The Waterfront Ghoul, John Lennon and the Number Nine, The Three Knocks of Death, The Little Storyteller, Grim Vision of a Triple Execution, The Witch Doctor's Curse, The Man of Her Dreams, The Chilling Story of the Rodney Street Ghost, Roll Out the Barrel, The St Luke's Abduction, The Strange Case of the Woman In Black, The Ginger Girl, the Speke Poltergeist, and many more stories to prove that fact really is stranger than fiction.
The Witch's Rede, Marriage Put On Hold, Coffin Cries, The Ultimate Answer, The Bully and the Fly, The Mysterious Nun Veronica, Miracle On Sandy Road, Mona the Cursed Doll, The Ghost of the Northern Hospital, The Jonah Child, The Bunny Man of Sutton Weaver, The Queensway Tunnel Hitch-Hiker, A Burns Night Ghost Story, Buyer Beware (She Bought A Ghost), The Boy in the Red Tee Shirt, The Laughing Lady, The Quarry Demon Terror, Mister Bill, Liberace's Haunted Candlesticks, A Stroll Into Limbo and other strange tales of the haunted north-west.
Born Too Late, Soap Sally, Tarney and the Little Folk, Terror on the M62, Storm In A Teacup, The Werewolves of County Fermanagh, Millionaire Tramp, The Karmic Wheel, The Kensington Banshee, Dead Man's Hand, Seabed Ghosts, The Pendle Necromancer, Peeping Tom, The Boar's Head, Two Terrifying Exorcisms, Romaine of Rodney Street, Wavertree Ghost Train, A Chatroom Ghost, Voice In the Night, The Mersey Mermaid, and many other strange tales of the haunted city.
The Art of Blackmail, Premonition of Death in Bootle, I See A Dark Stranger, The Telepath, Black Mary, Nazi Timeslip, The Ghost of Strawberry Fields, Who was Sir Peter Robinson?,The Strategic Reserve, True Colours, Long Tall Sally, The Dancing Dress, Gas Lamp Ghoul, The Return of Walter Slim, Jigsaw Jinx, Canning Street Ghost, The Answer Man, The Ghostly Charioteer of Bowring Park, Killed By A Dead Man, The Sad Tale of Madge Kirby, Nixi, The Caveman of Victoria Park, The India Rubber Menace, Catch the Ball, and many other unusual and unexplained tales of the north-west.
The Teacher Clock, Lifting the Veil, Tales from the Blue Lamp, The Last Time I Saw Clancy, Lady on the Ledge, A Flower Called Liverpool, Revenge of the Martha Dunn, The Sentries of the Stone, The Maiden in the Tower, Sentimental Journey, Cora Versus the Ghosts, A Soldier's Return, The Ormesher Ghosts, A Dangerous Experiment, Sleepwalkers, The Man In Black of St John's Road, The Case of the Unborn Daughter, The Tranmere Terror, The Flying Nun of Paddington, and more tales of the unexplained.
Dancing Devils, Stalking Skeletons, The Mouth of Hell, Who Goes There?, Mr Sphinx, Escape Into Yesterday, The Pyromaniac, The Moon Man at the Pier Head, Mirages of Murder, Dead Ringer, Childhood Bogeyman, The Ghostly Aviator of Dacre Hill, A Dance with Death, The Cupid's Bow Murder, The Cannibal Captain, Saved By A Bee, and many other strange and fascinating stories from the past and present of Liverpool - and beyond.
The Galosher Man, The Sign of the Feather, Spriggans (Stroke Visions), The Headless Nun, The Joyriders and the Reaper, Lady of the Night, A Voice from the Future, Elvis' Doppelganger, Mortality Bouquet, Libra the Witch, The Mary Celeste Mystery - Solved at Last, Curse of the Long Purse, The Girl in the Red Dress, Family of the Churchyard, The Old Lady of Allerton Road, An Invisible Intruder, Madame LaLaurie, Eve's Apple, Rat's Castle, The Blood Thief, and many more stories of intrigue and the inexplicable.
Romaine and the Shining Man, Screaming Ginny, Voices, Family of Werewolves, Boz, A Life That Could Have Been, Swan Song Syndrome, Face in the Flames, Higgledy, A Twisted Tail, The Angels of Mons, The Nun in the Wall, Night Visitors, Deadly Secret at the Stingo, The Pillbox Ghost, Arrows in the Snow, Coffee Table Coffin, Where A Thistle Grows, Meet Me At Capaldi's, Ghost at the Adelphi, The Halloween Visitant, Remember the Child, Watch the Bedbugs Don't Bite, The Wheel of Lyonesse, Fog, They Came to Say Goodbye, Miraculous Conceptions, The Circle of Life, The Vagrant and the Stars, and other sinister tales of the supernatural.
The Bermac Case, Haunted Office Block, The Mystery of Spring-Heeled Jack, The Headless Horseman of Bibby's Lane, Iggy,The Face Changer, The Green Ghost, The May Queen, The Grey Lady of Allerton Tower, The Pawnbroker's Moth, Strange Bedfellows, Stick Man, The Saddest Word in the World, Midnight Wish, Graveyard Ghosts, Two Maritime Ghosts, Ship in a Bottle, Echoes from the Past, The Eye, The Shared Dream, and more strange tales of the unknown.
In the thirteenth volume of Haunted Liverpool Tom tells the beautiful old Liverpool tale of Sarah and the Wizard, and relates a chilling account of a woman who stabs a ghost in Halewood, as well as the gripping story of the Knowsley Demon, and many more tales featuring such frighteningly diverse characters as the Lily White Boys, a Toxteth zombie, an octopoid entity that enters our dimension through mirrors, the speaking cat of Speke, and a woman who sees the names of people who are about to die in a newspaper obituary column - plus many more spooky stories.
Silent Neck-Breaker, A Meeting By Starlight, The Hilbre Whirlpool, Race with Death, A Knight's Tale, McGee's Mirror, Angelystor - the Angel of Death, Saved By A Kiss, Ray of Truth, Love and Eternity, The Haunted Doll's House, The Frankby Phantom and the Ghost of Greasby, Queen Victoria's Atom Bomb, Chilling Chimes, The Reunion, Warning from a Dead Rock Star, Hazel, Girl in the Rain, The Case of the Vanishing Magician, Parental Impostors, The Haunted Wardrobe, the Tree of Life, and many other strange tales of Wirral.
Haunted Cheshire was Tom's first departure from Liverpool's haunting grounds, and geographically encompassed many ghostly tales that spanning a vast area between Ellesmere Port and Macclesfield. Read about the pilot of a cessna plane who lost his bearings during a routine flight and found himself flying over Roman-occupied Cheshire, the woman who overheard three strange women talking about the death of Lady Diana - hours before she died in a car crash, a visitation by a banshee, and a woman who went to bed and unknowingly snuggled up to an unidentified corpse, plus many more weird stories of the county.
In 2003 Tom Slemen hosted a ghost walk attended by over 500 people. It broke the record for the most attended tour of Liverpool and was also the first public ghost tour of the city. The Liverpool Ghost walk is a guide to the haunted hot spots of the city, and takes in Bold Street, Leece Street, Rodney Street, St James's Cemetery, Clarence Street, Brownlow Hill and Ranelagh Street. Whether you want to use the guidebook to embark on your own ghost tour of Liverpool, or whether you simply want to enjoy the tour from the safety and comfort of your armchair, the Liverpool Ghost Walk is a must.
Tom Slemen's first ever book, Murder On Merseyside, published by Robert Hale of London, recounts 17 stories of the murders and murderers of Merseyside, including the baffling case of the canned corpse, the supposed assassination of John Lennon by sinister agents, the tragic case of the Pyre in the Alley, the Leveson Street Massacre, the Wallace Conundrum, and many other intriguing and perplexing crimes.
Tom explores the many mysteries of history, including the Man in the Iron Mask, the Englishman who flew before the Wright Brothers, the Turin Shround, Junius the anonymous letter writer who changed political history, the Tunguska Spacecraft survivor, and many other fascinating historical mysteries.
Following on from the success of Mysteries Tom delves into mysteries of time and space, and unearths more intriguing, perplexing and thought-provoking oddities and enimas from the past and the present.
Wicked Liverpool documents the violent and murderous history of the city. Murderers, rapists, poisoners and an assortment of disturbing stories paint a very bleak picture of life in Victorian Liverpool. Read about the heart-wrenching tragedy of "Anytime Annie", backstreet abortions, and cold-blooded murders.
A hard-to-find mass-market paperback which sold across the world from Alaska to China, The Mind's Secrets investigates the hidden powers of the mind, including the fabled Awakened State, Xenolalia, deadly hypnotism, astral travel, bodily elongation, spontaneous human combustion, accessing the Akashic Records, and reincarnation.