Ghost Hunters: 4 Classic Books on Supernatural Encounters
Victorian and Edwardian Case Histories of Hauntings, Apparitions, and Psychical ResearchBy J. W. Harris, Hereward Carrington, Elliott O'Donnell
Length20h 40m
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Ghost Hunters: 4 Classic Books on Supernatural Encounters gathers four foundational excursions into the haunted house, the apparition, and the uneasy border between testimony and belief. Moving among investigative case histories, reflective reportage, sensational narrative, and speculative occult inquiry, the volume reveals how ghost literature could be at once entertainment, folklore archive, and quasi-scientific investigation. Its accounts of witnessed manifestations and pursued mysteries preserve the period's fascination with evidence while sustaining the thrilling ambiguity on which supernatural writing depends. The collection brings together J. W. Harris, Hereward Carrington, and Elliott O'Donnell, writers associated with the broad Anglo-American culture of psychical research and popular occultism that flourished from the late nineteenth into the early twentieth century. Their differing temperaments—ranging from evidentiary scrutiny to vivid narrative reconstruction—illuminate competing ways of interpreting the uncanny. Read together, these voices situate ghost hunting within spiritualist debate, emerging paranormal inquiry, and the enduring literary inheritance of Gothic sensation. This volume is recommended for readers of Gothic literature, folklore, cultural history, and paranormal studies. It offers a rare opportunity to compare multiple methods of encountering the supernatural within one compact anthology. Both instructive and unsettling, it invites readers to assess testimony, atmosphere, and skepticism in dialogue across its varied texts.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, Literary Classics
Length20 hrs 40 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1True Irish Ghost Stories
2True Irish Ghost Stories
3TO THREE LIVELY POLTERGEISTS W——, J——, AND G——, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THE COMPILERS
4CHAPTER III
5CHAPTER V
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6CHAPTER VIII
7CONCLUSION
8True Ghost Stories
9True Ghost Stories
10PREFACE
11CHAPTER II
12CHAPTER III
13CHAPTER IV
14CHAPTER V
15APPENDIX A
16Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
17Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter
18CHAPTER I I COMMENCE MY GHOSTLY INVESTIGATIONS IN DUBLIN
19CHAPTER II I AM PURSUED BY PHANTOM FOOTSTEPS
20CHAPTER III SOME STRANGE CASES IN SCOTLAND
21CHAPTER IV I TRAVEL ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, AND DO SOME GHOST HUNTING IN SAN FRANCISCO
22CHAPTER V A HAUNTED OFFICE IN DENVER
23CHAPTER VI. CASES OF HAUNTINGS IN ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK, AND CHICAGO
24CHAPTER VII A HAUNTED WOOD AND A HAUNTED QUARRY IN CANADA
25CHAPTER VIII HAUNTINGS IN THE EAST END
26CHAPTER IX NIGHT RAMBLINGS ON WIMBLEDON COMMON AND HOUNSLOW HEATH
27CHAPTER X MY VIEWS ON A FUTURE LIFE FOR THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE WORLDS
28CHAPTER XI A HAUNTING IN REGENT’S PARK, AND MY FURTHER VIEWS WITH REGARD TO SPIRITUALISM
29CHAPTER XII A HAUNTED MINE IN WALES
30CHAPTER XIII THE POOL IN WALES THAT LURES PEOPLE TO DEATH
31CHAPTER XIV I GO ON WITH THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE, AND NARRATE A GHOSTLY HAPPENING IN LIVERPOOL
32CHAPTER XV SOME STRANGE CASES IN BIRMINGHAM, HARROGATE, SUSSEX AND NEWCASTLE
33CHAPTER XVI WAR GHOSTS
34CHAPTER XVII A CASE FROM JAPAN
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