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Walford's Oak is an eerie tale based on a true account which fascinated the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Somerset, England, 1797: On a stretch of road near the village of Over Stowey, two women encounter a frightening murder scene. Horrified, they run to the local inn where they learn that murderer and victim—a handsome charcoal burner named John Walford and his pregnant wife—are ghostly apparitions of a tragic event that transpired eight years earlier. The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who has recently come to live at Stowey, hears the story and develops a fascination for the tale of the unhappy young man who was hanged for his crime. Coleridge's musings form the basis for Walford's Oak.
First publish date: 1990
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Jill M. Phillips
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