The Case of the Cursed Paintings

The Case of the Cursed Paintings

Here is another yarn from the master storyteller, Phillip Mercer, and his Tales of Olde Sussex. This account is based around Heathfield in East Sussex in 1782. Maro Lombardi is an Italian artist who specialises in portraiture. There is something magical about his vibrant paints, yet there is also something tragic too. ——————————————————————- PLEASE SUPPORT […]

The Witch in the Ditch – Tales of Olde Sussex

The Witch in the Ditch - Tales of Olde Sussex

The legend told of an old woman that turned travellers into stone so that she could build a house for herself, and so it was … Here I present another of Philip Mercer’s many yarns from Tales of Olde Sussex published in 1834 – a gruesome murder from a thieving stonemason’s apprentice in Five oaks, […]

The Music of the Dead – a Tale of Olde Sussex

The Music of the Dead - a Tale of Olde Sussex

When a tailor sells his old rambling house on Horsham Common he requires one stipulation from the potential buyers. Phillip Mercer collected many ghost stories from his parishioners while he worked in Sussex as a Curate at the beginning of the 19th century. He published these along with other strange and unsettling accounts in a […]