Published 2015 by Aurum Press, London
London: Bloomsbury, 2014
Scared to Death and other ghost stories from Victorian Sheffield
Sheffield: ACM Retro, 2013
The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings
London: Bloomsbury: 2nd edition, 2012
Flying Saucerers: A social history of UFOlogy (with Andy Roberts). Loughborough: Heart of Albion Press, 2007
The Angel of Mons: Phantom Soldiers and Ghostly Guardians.
London: John Wiley, 2004
Out of the Shadows: UFOs, The Establishment and the Official Cover up
(with Andy Roberts)London: Piatkus, 2002
London: Robert Hale, 2000
The UFOs that Never Were (with J. Randles and A. Roberts)
London: Allison & Busby, 1999
Twilight of the Celtic Gods (with A. Roberts)
London: Cassell/Blandford Press, 1986.
Ghosts and Legends of the Peak District
Norwich: Jarrold, 1992, 128 pp. Third edition, 2000.
Phantoms of the Sky, UFOs: A Modern Myth? (with A. Roberts)
London: Robert Hale, 1990
David Clarke is Associate Professor in the Department of Media Arts and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He teaches media law and his research specialism is contemporary legend. Previously he worked as a journalist for The Sheffield Star and Yorkshire Post and spent four years working as a Press Officer in local government. His PhD in Folklore and was completed at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, in 1999. From 2008-13 he acted as consultant and curator of the MoD UFO files project with The National Archives. His books include The Angel of Mons (2004) and How UFOs Conquered the World: the history of a modern myth (2015). In 2018 he co-founded the Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University. This blog covers his twin research interests in journalism and folklore. The views expressed in the contents are entirely his own.
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