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The haunted book / Jeremy Dyson with Aiden Fox.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dyson, Jeremy.
Contributor:
Fox, Aiden.
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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