The Castle in the Woods

An Esoteric Jourmey Across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in Search of the Meaning of Life

Perry Twelvetrees

Privately published (available on eBay), 2021

Pb, 224pp, £10.00, ISBN 9781527283442

Ordinarily, this travelogue might have been placed within the genre of local history, being the author’s journey across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. As you might expect, his main destinations are locations known as the haunts of poltergeists, witches, werewolves and some enigmatic entities such as Robin Hood and Old Mother Shipton among others, ranging from historic dragon-slayers to outlaws. However, Twelvetrees has turned his voyage into “a search for the meaning of Life” and wastes no opportunity to extemporise on philosophy, mysticism and parapsychology along the way.