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The haunted book / Jeremy Dyson with Aiden Fox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dyson, Jeremy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haunted places--Great Britain.
- Haunted places.
- Ghosts--Great Britain.
- Ghosts.
- Haunted places--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Ghosts--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 v. (various pagings) ) ill., map
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Canongate, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 2009 Jeremy Dyson was contacted by a journalist wanting help bringing together accounts of true life ghost stories from across the British Isles. 'The Haunted Book' chronicles the journey Dyson, formerly a hardened sceptic, went on to uncover the truth behind the spooky tales.
- What unspeakable horror glimpsed in the basement of a private library in West Yorkshire drove a man to madness and an early grave? What led to an underground echo chamber in a Manchester recording studio being sealed up for good? What creature walks the endless sands of Lancashire's Fleetwood Bay, and what connects it to an unmanned craft washed ashore in Port Elizabeth, nearly six thousand miles away?In 2009 Jeremy Dyson was contacted by a journalist wanting help bringing together accounts of true life ghost stories from across the British Isles.The Haunted Book chronicles the journey Dyson, formerly a hardened sceptic, went on to uncover the truth behind these tales.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Introduction: The Hand of Glory
- Kitson from Nealon
- The Diary of Ramon Huld
- A Wire With Gain
- Ward Four Sixteen
- II. This Book Is Haunted by H. Den Fawkes
- Chapter 4: Water Ghosts
- An Encounter by Water
- Chapter 5: Mysterious Disappearances, Inexplicable Occurrences
- The Pleasure Park
- Tetherdown Lock
- Chapter 6: A Ghost Among the Bookshelves
- III. A Book of Hauntings by Sir Eden Vachs
- PREFACE
- I. APPARITIONS OF DARKNESS
- II. UNUSUAL HAUNTINGS AND INEXPLICABLE ENCOUNTERS
- IV. Glimpses in the Twilight by Rev. A. Tennethorex
- CHAPTER V: WITCHCRAFT AND NECROMANCY
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-85786-244-8
- OCLC:
- 1255226823
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