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Post by dem bones on Dec 15, 2021 15:37:50 GMT
Christmas 'non-fiction' read, from the man who gave the world the murder vicar of Ratcliffe Wharf. Beautifully illustrated throughout, not dissimilar to Peter Haining's Ghosts: The Illustrated History, with the advantage that many of the paintings and photo's are in color. Frank Smythe - Ghosts & Poltergeists (Aldus, 1976). Editorial consultants: Colin Wilson and Dr. Christopher Evans.1. Seeing and Believing. The ghosts of history, myth, and literature. The Census of Hallucinations of 1890 and its discoveries.
2. Alarms and Predictions. Crisis apparitions and the role of telepathy in ghostly phenomena. “False arrival" ghosts of living persons.
3. Haunts. The best-known ghosts are those that reappear in certain places, such as theaters and battlefields – but seldom cemeteries.
4. Ghosts Unhuman. If a ghost is a spirit of the dead, as some people think, how do we explain spectral sailing ships and buses ?
5. Family Ghosts. The banshee that wails before a death, the skull that refuses to be buried, and other grim family heirlooms.
6. The Poltergeist. One of the best-documented of all psychic phenomena, the poltergeist has a long and boisterous history.
7. Enter the Hunters. Various ways of investigating a ghost - from bell, book, and candle to masking tape and infrared film.
8. Toward an Explanation. Is it “all in the mind”? Some baffling cases. The ghost as evidence of life after death.
Picture creditsBlurb: Ghosts, as everyone knows, are imaginary — or are they? What about the man who was seen sitting by the fireplace reading his newspaper every afternoon for weeks after he had died? This is only one of dozens of authentic but baffling ghost stories told in this book.
The author explains the theory of the so-called “crisis apparition” and reveals how it is possible for animals and inanimate objects to have ghosts. Family hauntings, phantom armies, moaning nuns, monstrous black cats—these are some of the specters of legend that appear in these pages.
One chapter is devoted to the impish, sometimes malevolent, poltergeist, a phenomenon that continues to puzzle scientists today. Techniques of ghost-hunting are illustrated in several true-life cases, including the controversial investigation of Borley Rectory. The book concludes with a careful weighing of evidence supporting the various theories about ghosts.
A wealth of pictures, including some photos of ghosts and six especially commissioned paintings, illustrate the many guises of the ghost in fact and fiction. |
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Post by Swan on Dec 15, 2021 16:49:59 GMT
Christmas 'non-fiction' read, from the man who gave the world the murder vicar of Ratcliffe Wharf. Beautifully illustrated throughout, not dissimilar to Peter Haining's Ghosts: The Illustrated History, with the advantage that many of the paintings and photo's are in color. Frank Smythe - Ghosts & Poltergeists (Aldus, 1976). Editorial consultants: Colin Wilson and Dr. Christopher Evans.
This must be the same series as a Stuart Holroyd book I once owned. Holroyd was one of the original Angry Young Men, along with Wilson. Wilson got him involved in writing on the paranormal around the 70s. |
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Post by dem bones on Dec 15, 2021 17:27:27 GMT
This must be the same series as a Stuart Holroyd book I once owned. Holroyd was one of the original Angry Young Men, along with Wilson. Wilson got him involved in writing on the paranormal around the 70s. from previous year? Never seen a copy myself - had no idea the series existed until now. I like Frank Smythe's stuff for The Unexplained part work, too. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 15, 2021 18:09:25 GMT
This must be the same series as a Stuart Holroyd book I once owned. Holroyd was one of the original Angry Young Men, along with Wilson. Wilson got him involved in writing on the paranormal around the 70s. from previous year? Never seen a copy myself - had no idea the series existed until now. I like Frank Smythe's stuff for The Unexplained part work, too. |
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Post by Swan on Dec 15, 2021 19:39:26 GMT
Magic, Words & Numbers from previous year? Never seen a copy myself - had no idea the series existed until now. I like Frank Smythe's stuff for The Unexplained part work, too. It was Minds Without Boundaries, it doesn't say so there, but the author is Holroyd. |
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