This is the county, after all, of Miss Cranswell and the Croglin vampire and Archibald Hall, the evil butler loading bodies into his car boot at Newton Arlosh. On a wind-howling night in the Lake District you can snuggle up, shivering, with many more such tales: the Chinese bride Wai ... In Borrowdale and Wasdale, maybe, but what about some of the estates in Carlisle or in the small, still economically battered towns such as Workington and Whitehaven on the coastal rim? ...
