Well, as long as these women keep buying them, he'll keep supplying them of course. Hey, have you heard about this one Tom...............
Well, as long as these women keep buying them, he'll keep supplying them of course. Hey, have you heard about this one Tom...............
I think the Tom Slemen books are to be taken as seriously as Most Haunted.
The problem with the books is that they tell a story of what that person had for breakfast that morning yet cannot establish their surname.
There are lots of strange places in Liverpool which could easily be made in to a story but it's when you do research in to some of the stories, you realise that things don't add up all that well.
However people must be buying his books for him to bring out his latest in a long line of them and I have the collection myself. Not because I think they are true, but the fact that they are Liverpool based - you just have to take the stories with a 'pinch of salt'.
At the risk of being ridiculed I have to hold my hands up and admit to buying all of Slemans books
I bought his first book Murder on Merseyside & continued buying them
I don't take them serious but I do like to read them in bed ( maybe they just send me to sleep)
I also buy them because they are Liverpool based
Mandy
Btw Ged I'm not gullible so you better had duck
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Ha ha, that was said with my tongue in your cheeks. As long as you can make your own mind up about their authenthicity.
tongue in my cheeks!!!!!
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I'm ducking again..............
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Everybody likes ghost stories and Tom Slemen is obviously cashing in on that.
As an amateur local historian, it annoys me that he presents everything as facts (or that's the impression I got, because I only read his first book).
It's so easy for myths, legends, mistakes and lies to be accepted as facts by people (and not only the gullible), that, in this case, people must think that Liverpool is the most haunted place in the UK.
I've actually sat in Rodney st, in my car, in the dark, with my kids waiting for McKenzie to run across the road, telling my kids, look, look, keep looking, if you look away you'll miss him. Who's the gullible one now.
It's not really any different to all the more mainstream conspiracy theories. People like to believe this stuff because it makes their lives more interesting. Some of Tom's stories are food for thought, others just come across as fairy tales.
That's the problem, kids mythical monsters and ghouls have been relayed to Tom by these kids as they've grown up and now they are in print as fact.
They are just fairy stories for grown ups.
Mind you - the books are very popular with young teenage kids. My son and his mates like the stories. Kids of that age are impressionable and like to scare themselves silly, ha!
I'm the worst skeptic in the world and don't believe in any of it.
I have a few liverpool books from the 80`s i think. Liverpool Murders, Liverpool Oddities etc.
Most of those stories have ended up in Slemen`s books
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