Fill in the Blanks Book Blurbs 13Online version Book Blurbs by Michael Riccioli 1 legends predecessor told by accounts centuries arranged selected The 100 Best British Ghost Stories : Ghosts , Poltergeists , Boggarts and Black Dogs from the Oral Tradition by Gillian Bennett Amberley 2012 Gillian Bennett has the 100 best tales to frighten and enthral over the past four . Famous hauntings and familiar are combined with unusual and long - lost of apparitions , boggarts , black dogs and 'unhappy houses' , chronologically from an apparition in Cirencester recorded Aubrey in Miscellanies ( 1696 ) to a second wife haunted by her in 1983 .