P. D. BROWN
COMING SPRING
2026
Bright-Browed, Oak-Hearted
Stone circles, barrows and henges can be seen across the British Isles, they evoke a sense of wonder for a people about whose culture and beliefs we know next to nothing. Later cultures, that still lived when writing arrived in Britain, have had preserved some of their myths and memories, told by word of mouth until then, and have come down to us today. History, myth and legend were not discrete categories to them; there was only Story, stories whose yarns and threads are stitched into our landscape every bit as much as the henges and standing stones of the neolithic.
These tales are not set in a land faraway; they have precise locations, from Gwynedd to Moray, from Bamburgh to Thanet. It is through the power of story that these ancestral figures are conjured to life before the inner eye to live, love, fight and die again - and thus immortal; the vibrant ghosts of our early forebears, whose presence speaks in word and poetry a beauty, as enduring as the land itself.
P.D. Brown is a poet and semi-professional story-teller specialising in ghost and horror stories and pre-Christian tales from the Celtic and Germanic cultures of north-west Europe.
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Legends Less Sweet: Ghost stories and Folk Horror from Northern Lands
A ghostly chorus from the gothic North — eight tales of vengeance, sorrow, and spectres, told by a master of the spoken word.
Step into the mist-shrouded ruins and firelit hearths of Legends Less Sweet, a chilling collection of ghost stories and folk horror from the shadowy lands of the North. From screaming skulls in the Lake District and spectral brides on the Borders, to vampiric apparitions and eldritch witches, these tales draw on ancient lore and historical legend to summon the eerie, the uncanny, and the truly terrifying.
Rooted in the landscapes of Northern England, Scotland, and Iceland — and inspired by the oral tradition — this collection revives the storytelling spirit with a voice that is intimate, poetic, and profoundly unsettling.
P. D. Brown has performed across the UK, Europe, and the U.S., weaving tales of Celtic and Germanic myth, ancient magic, and haunting folklore. In 2023, he performed at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, bringing his singular mix of research, rhythm, and theatrical flair to wide acclaim. In Legends Less Sweet, he invites readers into a gothic tradition that echoes with centuries of ghost-lore and folk horror.
P. D. Brown
P. D. Brown has lived most of his life in the north of England; he spent twenty years working in Scotland as a Countryside Ranger. Interested from an early age in mythology and Paganism, he has long been fascinated by the power of the spoken and written word, whether this is through oral story-telling, poetry, prose, incantation, galdor, rhetoric, song or hypnosis. Since the 1980’s he has been a semi-professional story-teller specialising in ghost and horror stories and pre-Christian tales from the Celtic and Germanic cultures of north-west Europe.
He has told stories from Cornwall to Orkney, Texas and Vermont in the United States and in 2023 was invited to tell at Edinburgh’s prestigious Scottish International Storytelling Festival.
Hobbies:
Brewing herbal ale, carving runestones, axe-throwing, night-walking and writing poetry.
Favourite sayings:
"Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, For tea and coffee leave us much more serious.” - Lord Byron.
"To scal við saugu supa en ǽi ofmikit drecka soemð: er saugu at segia ef haeyrenðr til lyða, en tapat starfi at hafna at haeyra."
(One is to drink when stories are told, but not too much: it is an honour to tell a story if people listen, but it is a wasted effort if nobody listens.)
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