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Post by jamesdoig on May 6, 2016 23:12:23 GMT
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Post by ropardoe on May 7, 2016 11:09:15 GMT
Mango Books mostly publishes crime non-fiction, so this probably explains why you've not heard of them before. The O'Donnell book is their first foray into supernatural-related territory and I assume it happened because Richard Whittington-Egan is primarily a crime writer. I don't know whether the books are distributed in Australia: you can get them from Amazon UK, but that might not help. Adam Wood who runs Mango Books is very nice: you could just email him and ask.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 7, 2016 12:53:23 GMT
Whatever your opinion on the veracity of o'Donnell's accounts, his books are darned entertaining. I've only ever read Elliott O’Donnell's "The Grey Piper And The Heavy Coach Of Donaldgowerie House, Perth" and "The House Of The Ghostly Tap-Dancing", both in Bryan A. Netherwood's Medley Macabre. They're damn silly nonsense if you ask me.
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 10, 2016 20:48:14 GMT
Mango Books mostly publishes crime non-fiction, so this probably explains why you've not heard of them before. The O'Donnell book is their first foray into supernatural-related territory and I assume it happened because Richard Whittington-Egan is primarily a crime writer. I don't know whether the books are distributed in Australia: you can get them from Amazon UK, but that might not help. Adam Wood who runs Mango Books is very nice: you could just email him and ask. Just read this on Kindle; excellent! Was sorry to learn through this forum that RWE had passed away recently
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Post by dem bones on Dec 8, 2020 18:39:23 GMT
The Veiled Ghost of Highgate: A female spectre hovers above the ailing Charles Bruce, a wild and reckless young man recently returned home unexpectedly following two misspent years in Paris. Within hours of Bruce's death, the corpse of a beautiful woman washes ashore at Kent. It's left to the reader to draw a connection.
The Fifth Stair: Mr. Vances leases a two story house on Ricket Road, Kensington at a preposterously low rent. The ghost is that of a servant-terrifying woman in black with ghastly white face. Which might sound run of the mill, were it not for O'Donnell's love of the macabre and bloody.
A Haunted Hampstead House: "How someone must have suffered!" All O'Donnell is told prior to his September vigil is that the property is haunted - by what is for him to find out. After a night of nerve-shredding terror the charwoman's arrival comes as a great relief.
The Legend of Cooke's Folly: Bristol, circa 1673. Sheriff Cooke insults a gypsy by denying him a invitation to the ball. The offended party responds with a curse that will deprive Cooke of his son when he reaches twenty-one. As the fatal birthday draws near, the sheriff imprisons the young man in a tower to keep him from harm.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 7, 2021 17:39:17 GMT
Elliott O'Donnell - Phantoms of the Night (Rider & Co. 1956)
WEST OF ENGLAND HAUNTINGS Some Somerset Ghosts More West of England Ghosts Some Bristol Ghosts SOUTH OF ENGLAND HAUNTINGS The Haunting of Hinton Ampner Manor House The Amorous Ghost of Hove The Room of Lingering Thoughts The Haunting of Greendale Hall In the Corridor MIDLAND HAUNTINGS The Hauntings at Cheshunt The Sarratt Ghost Connor Hall and the Edge-Hill Hauntings Two Lovely Ghosts The Haunting of the Old Manor House of Creslowe Demon Tables The Haunting of Manorbere Hall Apparitions Appearing at the Time of Death LONDON HAUNTINGS The Haunting of Holly Lodge The Ghost of Old Boar's Head Tavern and other Hauntings The Haunting of Benjamin Mullens A Theatre Mystery No. _ Berkeley Square The Bumping Ghost of Chelsea Chelsea, Thames and St. James's Street The Chick Lane Ghost A Telephone Mystery NORTH OF ENGLAND HAUNTINGS Some Hauntings in the North Tyneside and other Hauntings The Dead Hand and the Laughing Ghost The Footsteps on the Stairs The Hauntings at Littledean and Doncaster EAST OF ENGLAND HAUNTINGS Some Hauntings in the Eastern Counties The Phantom Knocker SCOTTISH HAUNTINGS The Phantom Leash The Hauntings at Clifton Park and Dundee Ghostly Happenings in Angus WELSH HAUNTINGS The Bed of Terror A Medley of Welsh Ghosts Rudolph the Accursed
ADDENDA The Haunted Earrings A Ghostly Advent Theories
A rebound ex-lib copy lacking dust jacket so will have to make do without cover scan (there's one on Fantasy Fiction).
Touching dedication: In fondest memory of my wife
Prelude: The contents of the book vary as regards evidential quality, but in all there is a factual foundation
The Amorous Ghost of Hove: Stout, elderly Mr. Price takes two rooms at Mrs. Smith's boarding house. Price is a generous tipper, but before long has made such a nuisance of himself with young female guests that the landlady asks him to leave. Furious, he vows that, on his death he will haunt the place until Mrs. Smith's departure. True to his word, Price's ghost picks up where his lecherous living self left off.
A Theatre Mystery: 'Sonia Lester,' a Spanish gypsy dancer in a revival of The Brigands at the Grampion in London's West End, is not one to shirk a performance - even when she is as desperately unwell as one can get.
The Haunting of Benjamin Mullens: Vicinity of Brockley Road, SE London. Mullens congratulates himself on landing so attractive a property on such ludicrously favourable terms - until he learns the terrible secret of the room of weirdly sweet music. Jones, the amateur ghost-hunter next door, suspects the house stands on the site of a gibbet, Druidic sacrifice stone on even a black magic altar. It is home to an elemental bent on the destruction of any stupid enough to make home there.
Two Lovely Ghosts: A youth walking through a rural district is captivated by the sight of two stunningly attractive girls stood by the ruins of a house with a huge courtyard. Two victims of the tragedy that befell the house, claiming several lives. The boy is later warned that the other ghosts are far from pleasant.
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Post by Swampirella on Feb 8, 2021 1:54:32 GMT
My copy has this (fantastic) cover:
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Post by dem bones on Feb 8, 2021 16:41:54 GMT
That one is indeed a beauty, Swampi. My copy was withdrawn 12 October 1959 - and it shows. We really need to compile a mini-biblio of his books, if only to establish which are originals and which greatest hits compilations from earlier works. The Haunting of Holly Lodge: When circumstances drove Miss Sibald from her beloved London home in 1854, she assured anyone who'd listen that, on her death, she would return to haunt it. Sure enough, the new owners find it impossible to keep servants on account of a "mysterious old lady" forever creeping them out. So far, so decent, without being anything remarkable by O'Donnell standards. Then two very welcome horrors on the spin. The Bed of Terror: The beat in the attic, etc. Captain R. D. James stops overnight at the Gravelon hotel, Llandudno, only to be joined in bed by the ghost of the landlord's hideous idiot son, lost over the cliffs at Little Orme Head. The distraught parents had kept him locked away from birth, only allowing him the occasional stroll outdoors when the coast was clear. The Chick Lane Ghost: This one begins like something out of Web Terror Stories. A millinery shop on Bruton Street, circa 1758. Mrs Metyard and daughter, Sarah, imprison, starve and flagellate Anne Naylor, a child apprentice, to death for perceived slacking. Initially they insist the girl has taken sick and must stay in the attic. When Anne's sister grows suspicious, they murder her, too. Come Christmas, the attic is beginning to reek. Fearful of exposure, the Metyards dismember Anne and scatter her limbs by a sewer gate in Chick Lane. We never learn what became of her sister. A coroner supposes the body parts dumped by lazy medical students, so no further action required! Then word gets around that a figure in white haunts the sewer gate ..... Ten years have passed, and still the killers go free. Will the sisters never be avenged?
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Post by dem bones on Sept 26, 2021 8:25:01 GMT
Wasn't sure where to post this as it doesn't appear to have been included in any of the collections (?). A festive-themed O'Donnell's contribution to Weird Tales.
One Christmas Eve: (Weird Tales, July 1934). This peculiar story was told to the author by a little boy who generally speaks the truth. A ghost steps down from her portrait on Christmas Eve in answer to a little boy's plea that she help his lovely Aunt May, who is having a beastly time of it from her cantankerous stepmother. May and fiance Hugh are desperate to marry but can't yet afford to. The ghost leads the boy, Charlie, out to the well where her skeleton still lies, clutching a jewellery box. She fell to her death one December 24th as she set out in the snow to meet with a suitor who did not meet with parental approval.
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