Books with title Horrible Histories Gruesome Guides: Edinburgh

A stunning city guide with all the gruesome bits left in! Shudder as Terry Deary takes you on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Edinburgh, exposing all its scurrilous secrets! Climb up the cursed castle! Hit the High Street for a host of historical horrors! Find out whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir! Visit hellish Holyrood House! With kidnapped kings, mysterious murders and reckless raids galore, it's a trip you simply daren't miss!

A place of plague, pestilence and fire, plus the brutal Blitz and the eye-watering Great Stink. It's loathsome London as the tourists never see it - with all the hidden horrible bits! In this gruesome city guide, Terry Deary takes you on a tour of Britain's biggest city, exposing all its scurrilous secrets. Take a trip to the terrifying Tower (but try to keep your head on). Dip into London's largest toilet, the ruthless River Thames! Peer into creepy St Paul's Cathedral! It's a blood-spattered trip you simply daren't miss!

A witty whistle-stop tour of York's foul but fascinating history - complete with deadly diseases, vicious Vikings and creepy criminals like Dick Turpin and Guy Fawkes! A frightful map lets you plot your path into the perilous past, meeting at the Minster, ambling through the blood-soaked Shambles and then climbing up to Micklegate - where so many traitors headed off. Perilous plagues, horrendous highwaymen and angry invaders. It's where York gets seriously yucky!

Shudder at the savage story of Dublin, brimming with blood-soaked battles and riotous rebellions. Terry Deary reveals the horrible history of the great Irish city, from the blood-dripping battle of Clontarf to the risings and rebellions of the twentieth century. Find out why the mayor of Dublin put his Mum in prison, picnic with pirates at St Stephen's Green, creep around cruel cathedrals and then head to dreadful Dublin castle. Torture, traitors and cut-throat Irish chieftains - it's a trip you simply daren't miss!

It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir? Why it's alright to spit on the High Street? How the pupils of Edinburgh High School got away with murder? Plot your path to the past with a frightful full-colour map of the city's horrible highlights - climb up the cursed castle for tales of reckless raids and hit the High Street for a whole host of historical horrors.