Showing posts with label Ghosts and Hauntings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ghosts and Hauntings. Show all posts

Legends of the Peak

David Clarke. Ghosts and Legends of the Peak District. Jarrold, Norwich. 1990.
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Essential Ghost Writing

Andrew Mackenzie. The Seen and the Unseen, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1987.

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Ghost Hunters

Peter Underwood. The Ghost Hunters; Who They Are and What They Do. Hale, 1985.
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Ghosts, Witchcraft, Demons and Books of Magic

Daniel Ogden. Night's Black Agents: Witches, Wizards and the Dead in the Ancient World, Hambledon Continuum, 2008.

Jeffrey R Watt. The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth Century Italian Convent. University of Rochester Press, 2009.

Lynn Wood Mollenauer. Strange Relations: Magic, Poison and Sacrilege in Louis XIVs France. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. (Magic in History Series)
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Noisy Ghosts

John and Anne Spencer. The Poltergeist Phenomenon: An Investigation into Psychic disturbance. Headline, 1996.

Philip Stander and Paul Schmolling. Poltergeists and the Paranormal: Fact Beyond Fiction. Llewellyn, 1996.

Better Late Than Never



Brief notes of some books which slipped through the net and were not reviewed in Magonia Review when first published, but which are worthy of comment here.  Notes by Peter Rogerson.

Most Haunted

William J Hall. The World’s Most Haunted House: The True Story of the Bridgeport Poltergeist on Lindley Street. New Page, 2014.

Things To Do When You're Dead



Trevor Hamilton.  Tell My Mother I’m Not Dead: A Case Study in Mediumship Research Imprint Academic, 2012.

Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson and Debbie James (Eds.) The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation. Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2009.

John G. Sabot.  Digging up Ghosts: Unearthing Past Presences at a Haunted Location. Ghost Evacuation Books, 2013.

Trevor Hamilton.  Tell My Mother I’m Not Dead: A Case Study in Mediumship Research Imprint Academic, 2012.

More Tea, Vicar?

Robert Wood. The Widow of Borley. Duckworth, 1992.


Poltergeists off the Leash

William Roll and Valerie Storey. Unleashed: Of Poltergeists and Murder, the Curious Story of Tina Resch. Paraview Pocket Books, 2004.

Evil in Wales

Edmund Jones. The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales. Edited, with an introduction, by John Harvey. University of Wales Press, 2003
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The Ghost and the Bishop

Peter Marshall. Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story. Oxford University Press, 2007.

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The Forgotten Ghosts

Owen Davies. The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Phantom Histories

P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. Ghosts: A History of Phantoms, Ghouls and Other Spirits of the Dead. Tempus, 2006.

Ghosthunters

Yvette Fielding and Ciaran O’Keeffe. Ghost Hunters: A Guide to Investigating the Paranormal Hodder and Stoughton, 2006.

Alan Brown. Ghost Hunters of the South. University Press Of Mississippi, 2006.

Postmodernist Ghosts

Katherine Ramsland. Ghost: Investigating the Other Side. Thomas Dunne Books / St Martins Press, 2001.

John Rackham. Brighton Ghosts: Hove Hauntings: True Ghost Stories from Brighton, Hove and Neighbouring Villages. Latimer Publications, 2001.

The Tidy Ghost

Kathryn A. Edwards and Susie Speakman Sutch. (editors and translators) Leonarde's Ghost: Popular Piety and 'The Appearance of a Spirit' in 1628. Truman State University Press, 2008.

Ghost Hunting

Natalie Osborne-Thomason. The Ghost-Hunting Casebook, Blandford, 1999.


A Seventeenth-Century Ghost Story

Kathryn A Edwards and Susie Speakman Sutch. (editors and translators) Leonarde’s Ghost: Popular Piety and the Appearance of a Spirit in 1628. Truman State University Press, 2008


Really Real Realities

Walter Stephens, Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex and the Crisis of Faith, University Press, 2002.
 

Hilary Evans. Seeing Ghosts: Experiences of the Paranormal. John Murray. 2002.