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The Little Book of Ghosts
An essential pocket guide to the fascinating world of ghosts, poltergeists, and haunted buildings This little gem of a book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange, and entertaining facts and trivia surrounding ghosts. Within this volume are such chapters as haunted houses, roads, woods and byways, phantom animals, royal ghosts, poltergeists, and haunted objects, while not forgotten are spooky séances and time-slip ghosts, as well as some of the famous ghost-hunters themselves, including Harry Price, Elliot O'Donnell, and R. Thurston Hopkins. Anyone curious enough to pick up this book will be terrified, enthralled, and never short of facts about the mysterious realm of ghosts and haunted places.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published September 10, 2014
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Paul Adams
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April 27, 2022
The Little Book of Ghosts recounts a number of both well known and lesser known sightings and legends of ghostly encounters, ordered after the type of phenomena recounted. The book provides an easily-digestable, quick and informative introduction to true ghosts, and I enjoyed that it combined the classic cases such as Borley and Cheltenham with newer encounters from the past few decades. Where I found the book to fall a bit short was in its straight-forward and uncritical approach to true ghost stories, neither including too many details or going into the more problematic possibilities of interpretation. While this is to be expected from a "little book of", it's difficult to make true ghost stories appealing without providing context and detail. As such, I would recommend this book to people interested in supernatural phenomena and ghostly encounters, but perhaps not to those who've already read extensively about the subject.
June 22, 2022
A good little book on ghosts by Paul Adams that I enjoyed reading. I liked the way it was set out throughout the book. It was just a shame that there weren't any insights to ghostly happenings around Cheshire and Wirral. As a paranormal investigator for nearly thirty years I have encountered, along with my team, many hauntings within those areas over the years as well as in Wales. But a good read anyway.
November 8, 2017
The Little Book of Ghosts by Paul Adams was a great book to read. I loved all the information in this book about Paranormal.
November 7, 2015
This is a book I bought as a present for a fellow ghost story lover. Winter is certainly the season for ghost stories – the dark nights, fog, an early morning mist over a list, owls hooting on a lonely country lane, the creaks at dead of night in a vast, draughty old house, a drift of fallen leaves rustling in a deserted churchyard, the sense of something at the corner of your eye. This is the time to read ghost stories.
This is a little book crammed with purportedly ‘true’ ghost stories gathered under various sections and chapters i.e. black dogs, road hauntings etc. Although the author repeats some very well-known stories such as the woman in black at Cheltenham, Borley Rectory etc he does also feature newer ones such as shadow people and other newer ones that I’d not previously read. However he recounts the older ones uncritically and without much background information or comment. There are no photos but instead the author has featured reproductions of historical black and white illustrations in the text.
I must say that I preferred Roger Clark’s ‘A Natural History of Ghosts’ as it took a more critical and in depth look at ghosts and what they might be. This was a little too undemanding for me but I felt that, at Christmas, with a glass of port and some cheese and crackers it would certainly pass the time entertainingly.
This is a little book crammed with purportedly ‘true’ ghost stories gathered under various sections and chapters i.e. black dogs, road hauntings etc. Although the author repeats some very well-known stories such as the woman in black at Cheltenham, Borley Rectory etc he does also feature newer ones such as shadow people and other newer ones that I’d not previously read. However he recounts the older ones uncritically and without much background information or comment. There are no photos but instead the author has featured reproductions of historical black and white illustrations in the text.
I must say that I preferred Roger Clark’s ‘A Natural History of Ghosts’ as it took a more critical and in depth look at ghosts and what they might be. This was a little too undemanding for me but I felt that, at Christmas, with a glass of port and some cheese and crackers it would certainly pass the time entertainingly.
April 22, 2023
This had my interest just from the title! I love all things paranormal and spooky! This book gives information about hauntings from around the world! If you’re into haunting and spooky things, I would 100% recommend finding a copy of this IMMEDIATELY!
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