Source library

The Source Library

A consolidated bibliography of the books, pamphlets, articles, catalogues and transcriptions used by the encounter dossiers.

How the library is assembled

One source trail, brought together

The bibliography is generated from the structured source records attached to each dossier. A source used by several encounters appears once, with every related record shown beside it.

Missing publication details are left blank or marked as still being sought. Inspected material, accessible transcriptions and sources known only through catalogue records retain their different status.

33 of 33 source records shown

Source group

Primary and early texts

3 sources
02
Primary accountInspected

A straunge and terrible wunder

Abraham Fleming, A straunge and terrible wunder wrought very late in the parish church of Bongay. London: Frauncis Godly, 1577. STC 11050.

Exact reference
Unpaginated. See “The reporte of a straunge and wonderful Spectacle.” Surviving copy: British Library C.27.a.4.
Held or supplied by
Oxford Text Archive · ota:A00943
Rights and reuse
Original work is public domain. OTA electronic text is released as CC0. Page-image terms are separate.
04
Earlier journal accountInspected; concealed place-names interpreted cautiously

Amelia Opie's journal for 1829

Amelia Opie, journal entry printed in Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854.

Exact reference
Chapter XV, journal for 1829; passage beginning with the twilight walk and Old Shock.
Held or supplied by
Project Gutenberg · eBook 47595
Rights and reuse
The 1854 book is public domain. The linked transcription is supplied under Project Gutenberg's terms.
31
Primary publication, accessible transcriptionFull transcription inspected; original scan pending

The Hell Hound

M. H. James, ‘The Hell Hound’, in Bogie Tales of East Anglia. Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, Ancient House, 1891.

Exact reference
Chapter ‘The Hell Hound’. Original page images and pagination remain to be checked.
Held or supplied by
Jot101 transcription of the 1891 text
Rights and reuse
The 1891 text is public domain. This archive links to the transcription but uses its own summary and structure.

Source group

Newspapers and periodicals

7 sources
06
Published accountIssue record and detailed summary inspected

Black Shuck in Woodbridge

Matt Salusbury, letter in Fortean Times, issue 361, 2018.

Exact reference
Letters section, summarised in the issue contents record.
Held or supplied by
Fortean Times digital issue listing
Rights and reuse
Copyrighted publication. Bibliographic details and original summary only; no magazine text or image is reproduced.
07
Located secondary reportPublication identified; direct page access restricted

Black Shuck is the hell-hound legend that won’t lie down

Martin Newell, ‘Martin Newell’s Joy of Essex: Black Shuck is the hell-hound legend that won’t lie down’, East Anglian Daily Times, 9 June 2014.

Exact reference
Passage describing an old newspaper account of an Essex midwife cycling home in the 1930s.
Held or supplied by
East Anglian Daily Times
Rights and reuse
The article is linked as a research source. No modern article text is reproduced beyond brief necessary wording.
18
Original newspaper recordIssue and page verified; full page image access-restricted

Graham Grant’s Gorleston beach sighting

Evening News (London), 27 April 1972, p. 11.

Exact reference
British Library issue BL/0005765/19720427, page 0011, article segments 211–212.
Held or supplied by
British Newspaper Archive
Rights and reuse
The bibliographic record and limited OCR preview are linked. No newspaper image is reproduced.
23
Original publication soughtIssue identified; original page not yet inspected

Norfolk Fair

Ernest Whiteland account, Norfolk Fair, June 1980.

Exact reference
Exact page and article heading still to be recovered.
Held or supplied by
Norfolk local studies collection to be checked
Rights and reuse
Bibliographic lead only. No magazine text or image is reproduced.
25
Route tradition and source trailInspected; contains details borrowed from a separate account

Off-road in Norfolk

Dominic Bliss, Cycling UK, first published in Cycle magazine, June to July 2016.

Exact reference
Peddars Way section describing the Black Shuck association.
Held or supplied by
Cycling UK
Rights and reuse
Linked for research. The archive uses an original critical summary and reproduces no photograph.
27
Primary printed noticeInspected

Shuck the Dog-fiend

E.S.T., ‘Shuck the Dog-fiend’, Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, &c., no. 29 (18 May 1850), 468.

Exact reference
Folk Lore section, page 468, between ‘Sir Thomas Boleyn’s Spectre’ and ‘Numismatic Queries’.
Held or supplied by
Project Gutenberg · eBook 15197
Rights and reuse
The 1850 periodical text is public domain. The linked transcription is supplied under Project Gutenberg’s terms.

Source group

Books and later collections

9 sources
01
Earliest printed source presently identifiedPublication identified; relevant passage not yet inspected

A Ghost Hunter's Game Book

James Wentworth Day. London: Frederick Muller, 1958.

Exact reference
Peddars Way passage and page still to be recovered.
Held or supplied by
Open Library author catalogue
Rights and reuse
Copyrighted work. Bibliographic details only have been inspected; no text or image is reproduced.
08
Regional contextPublisher record inspected

Black Shuck: The Ghost Dog of Eastern England

Martin Newell, illustrated by James Dodds. Jardine Press, third edition, 2016.

Exact reference
Publisher’s description places the inquiry in North Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.
Held or supplied by
Jardine Press
Rights and reuse
Bibliographic and publisher material consulted. No poem or illustration is reproduced.
10
Later local accountPublication verified; complete chapter pending

Blickling and a ghost

F. J. Meyrick, Round about Norfolk and Suffolk. Norwich: Jarrold and Sons, [1925].

Exact reference
Chapter ‘Blickling and a ghost’. Book listed as 110 pages in Norfolk Archaeology 22.
Held or supplied by
Publication identified; excerpts supplied by Norfolk Record Office
Rights and reuse
Bibliographic record and institutional excerpts consulted. No book page is reproduced.
11
Bibliographic and contents checkInspected for publication details and contents

Bogie Tales of East Anglia

M. H. James, Bogie Tales of East Anglia. Originally published at Ipswich by Pawsey and Hayes, 1891; critical edition 2019.

Exact reference
Contents entry for ‘The Hell Hound’, page 47 in the critical edition.
Held or supplied by
Google Books record and preview
Rights and reuse
Bibliographic record consulted. No modern-edition text or image is reproduced.
13
Principal collected sourceComplete passage inspected

Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore

Enid Porter, with Fenland material supplied by W. H. Barrett. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.

Exact reference
Printed pages 53 to 54, in ‘Folklore of Nature: Mammals’.
Held or supplied by
Open Library and Internet Archive · cambridgeshirecu0000enid
Rights and reuse
Copyrighted work. The archive provides citation and original summary only; no book text or page image is reproduced.
14
Publisher preview and contents checkFront matter and contents inspected; account page unavailable

Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore

Enid Porter, with Fenland material provided by W. H. Barrett. First published 1969; Routledge Library Editions reprint, 2015.

Exact reference
Front matter and contents inspected. The relevant passage is not included in the open preview.
Held or supplied by
Routledge and Taylor & Francis preview
Rights and reuse
Copyrighted preview consulted for bibliographic structure only. No page image or book text is reproduced.
15
Probable printed sourcePublication identified; encounter page not yet inspected

Essex Ghosts

James Wentworth Day. London: Spurbooks, 1973. ISBN 0902875445.

Exact reference
The exact page remains to be found. A chapter titled 'The Black Dog' is the present lead.
Held or supplied by
British National Bibliography record
Rights and reuse
Copyrighted work. Bibliographic details only have been inspected; no text or page image is reproduced.
20
Later reference locating the newspaperSecondary locator checked against the newspaper index

London Evening News report of Graham Grant’s sighting

London Evening News, 27 April 1972.

Exact reference
Graham Grant account, now independently located on page 11.
Held or supplied by
Cited in George M. Eberhart, Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology
Rights and reuse
The reference work is linked for research. No newspaper or book image is reproduced.
28
Earliest printed source presently identifiedBook and chapter identified; original passage not yet inspected

Tales from the Fens

Walter Henry Barrett, edited by Enid Porter. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963.

Exact reference
Chapter titled ‘The Legend of the Bulldog Bridge’; relevant pages still to be inspected.
Held or supplied by
Google Books bibliographic record
Rights and reuse
Copyrighted work. Bibliographic details only are linked; no text or image is reproduced.

Source group

Academic research

4 sources
03
Author and printing contextInspected

Abraham Fleming: writer, cleric and preacher

Clare Elizabeth Painting Stubbs, Abraham Fleming: Writer, Cleric and Preacher in Elizabethan and Jacobean London. PhD thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011.

Exact reference
Chapter 2, “A Straunge and Terrible Wunder (1577),” 37–61; transcription supplement from British Library C.27.a.4.
Held or supplied by
Royal Holloway research repository
Rights and reuse
Repository copy consulted for research. No page image is reproduced here.
16
Earliest scholarly notice presently identifiedArticle and page identified; original page not yet directly inspected

Folklore Survivals in the Southern ‘Lake Counties’ and in Essex

L. F. Newman and E. M. Wilson, Folklore 63, no. 2 (1952), 91–104.

Exact reference
Black-dog notice at page 100. DOI 10.1080/0015587X.1952.9718106.
Held or supplied by
Taylor & Francis journal record
Rights and reuse
Copyrighted journal article. Bibliographic details and one brief necessary phrase only are reproduced.
30
Modern scholarly studyInspected

The Black Dog of Bungay

Christian Owen, “The Black Dog of Bungay: Religious Conflict and Supernatural Terror in a Suffolk Parish,” Journal of Religious History 48 (2024), 393–408.

Exact reference
Especially 405–407 for the parish setting, Fleming’s purpose and the 1577 account.
Held or supplied by
University of Cambridge Apollo repository
Rights and reuse
Open-access article, CC BY 4.0.

Source group

Archives, repositories and digital collections

10 sources
05
Comparative black-dog surveyInspected for geographical and comparative context

Black Dogs: Cave Canem

ASSAP survey of reported black-dog traditions in Britain.

Exact reference
East Anglia section, including Peddars Way across Breckland.
Held or supplied by
Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena
Rights and reuse
Linked for research. No substantial text or image is reproduced.
09
Institutional transcription and source guideInspected

Black Shuck: The Hell Hound that Terrorises Blickling Hall

L. Spirit, Norfolk Record Office blog, 3 August 2023.

Exact reference
Transcribes the mid-nineteenth-century sentence and quotes F. J. Meyrick’s Blickling accounts.
Held or supplied by
Norfolk Record Office
Rights and reuse
Institutional article consulted and linked. Only a short manuscript extract is quoted here.
12
Independent account of Newell’s researchInspected; secondary corroboration only

Britain’s Black Dog Legends

David Castleton, ‘Britain’s Black Dog Legends’, The Serpent’s Pen, 17 October 2020.

Exact reference
Section recounting Newell’s discovery of a 1930s newspaper report concerning a cycling midwife near Tolleshunt D’Arcy.
Held or supplied by
The Serpent’s Pen
Rights and reuse
Linked as a secondary research trail. The archive uses its own summary and reproduces no illustration.
17
West Norfolk local collectionModern local report inspected; witness and event date not supplied

Ghosts of West Norfolk

Paul Lee, notes from local testimony collected around Snettisham and north-west Norfolk.

Exact reference
Old Hunstanton golf-course entry, explicitly recorded as a ghost dog rather than Black Shuck.
Held or supplied by
Paul Lee's West Norfolk ghost survey
Rights and reuse
Linked as a research lead. The archive uses original summary and reproduces no illustration.
19
Detailed preservation of the accountSubstantial quotation inspected

Haunted Bungay Walk

Water, Mills and Marshes with Weird Suffolk, Haunted Bungay Walk, published online 2020.

Exact reference
Pages 4 to 5, point 4, quoting Ernest Whiteland and identifying Norfolk Fair, June 1980.
Held or supplied by
Water, Mills and Marshes
Rights and reuse
Linked for research. The archive supplies original summary and one short attributed extract; no page image is reproduced.
22
Research historyInspected; original Hidden East Anglia submission still sought

My dad saw Shuck in the Seventies!

Matt Salusbury, 22 December 2021.

Exact reference
Section on Keith Flory's 1973 Woodbridge encounter and the Hidden East Anglia team.
Held or supplied by
Matt Salusbury's research blog
Rights and reuse
Linked for source history. The archive uses original summary and reproduces no illustration.
24
Archival recordCatalogue inspected; manuscript image pending

Notes including the ‘shuck’ dog apparition

Unknown author, notes on Blickling including the black-dog apparition, undated [mid nineteenth century]. Norfolk Record Office, Lothian of Blickling (Additional).

Exact reference
NRO MC 3/858/1-5, 715X7. Five papers. Catalogue title includes ‘the shuck dog apparition’.
Held or supplied by
Norfolk Record Office online catalogue
Rights and reuse
Catalogue record linked for research. No manuscript image is reproduced.
32
Institutional collecting contextInspected

Tracing Traditions

Museum of Cambridge account of Enid Porter’s work with W. H. Barrett and the museum’s folklore collections.

Exact reference
Section ‘Teller of Stories’ and the account of Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore.
Held or supplied by
Museum of Cambridge
Rights and reuse
Institutional page linked for research. No image or substantial text is reproduced.
33
Local preservation of the accountExtended quotation inspected; source book page pending

Two Local Legends

Salcott-cum-Virley Village Hall local history page, quoting James Wentworth Day's account of William Fell.

Exact reference
Section concerning the enormous black dog met near Salcott crossroads.
Held or supplied by
Salcott-cum-Virley Village Hall
Rights and reuse
Linked for research. The archive uses original summary and one short attributed extract; no illustration is reproduced.