The Victorian Ghost Hunter's Casebook
The Victorian Ghost Hunter's Casebook

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781948084079

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Untraceable whispering voices.Gnome-like spirits who walk through walls.A room that glows with an eerie, life-draining light.Disembodied footsteps that climb stairs but never descend.A house with doors that open by themselves-even when locked.After a period of strong skepticism among writers and intellects regarding the reality of ghosts, the Victorian era (1837-1901) revitalized interest in seriously exploring houses and other locations alleged to be haunted. The paranormal investigators, including Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, chronicled their methods and discoveries. Equipped with little more than candles, patience, and perhaps a flask of brandy, these men and women laid a foundation for the ghost hunters of today.The Victorian Ghost Hunter's Casebook presents some of the most intriguing, most frightening, and most charming of the chronicles left behind. Ghostlore scholar Tim Prasil provides an Introduction about what motivated the Victorians to investigate spectral manifestations, along with the history of ghost hunters that preceded them. He also provides enlightening details on twelve ghostly cases located in Britain, and an Appendix with two more ghost hunts held in the United States during the Victorian era.

Ghost-Hunter's Casebook
Ghost-Hunter's Casebook

Author: Bowen Pearse

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-10-24

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 075247412X

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Andrew Green, who died in 2004, was for sixty years one of Britain's most active and best-known ghost-hunters. The Daily Telegraph famously christened him 'the Spectre Inspector'. The author of best-sellers such as Our Haunted Kingdom and Ghost Hunting: a Practical Guide, he investigated hundreds of reported hauntings during his career, from famous cases such as 'the poltergeist girl of Battersea' to cases where a client had simply taken the wrong medication before bed. The most important cases from his lifetime of research are collected together in this volume - alongside new research and many reports that have never previously been published. This is an essential guide to the career of Britain's most famous ghost-hunter, and indeed to the paranormal history of ' our haunted kingdom'.

The Ghost-hunting Casebook
The Ghost-hunting Casebook

Author: Natalie Osborne-Thomason

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Presents a collection of accounts of ghost hauntings and sightings, along with commentary on the scientific, historic and philosophical explanations for paranormal events.

The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

Author: Kj Charles

Publisher: Samhain Publishing

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781619229679

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A story too secret, too terrifying-and too shockingly intimate-for Victorian eyes. A note to the Editor Dear Henry, I have been Simon Feximal's companion, assistant and chronicler for twenty years now, and during that time my Casebooks of Feximal the Ghost-Hunter have spread the reputation of this most accomplished of ghost-hunters far and wide. You have asked me often for the tale of our first meeting, and how my association with Feximal came about. I have always declined, because it is a story too private to be truthfully recounted, and a memory too precious to be falsified. But none knows better than I that stories must be told. So here is it, Henry, a full and accurate account of how I met Simon Feximal, which I shall leave with my solicitor to pass to you after my death. I dare say it may not be quite what you expect. Robert Caldwell September 1914 Warning: Contains a foul-tempered Victorian ghost-hunter, a journalist who's too curious for his own good, villainy, horror, butterflies, unusual body modifications, and a lot of tampering with the occult.

Victorian Ghost Stories: Usborne Classics Retold
Victorian Ghost Stories: Usborne Classics Retold

Author: Mike Stocks

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1409569179

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Six spine-tingling stories dug up and dusted down for today's readers. Enter the terrifying world of Victorian ghouls and ghostly apparitions – if you dare.

Twenty Years? Experience As a Ghost Hunter
Twenty Years? Experience As a Ghost Hunter

Author: Elliott O'Donnell

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-03-30

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781530799558

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An account of incidents from some of Elliott O'Donnell's twenty years as a ghost hunter, including his first experiences. First published in 1916, by the renowned Victorian ghost hunter and authority on the supernatural. With illustrations. CuriousPages Edition This book is a CuriousPages edition, which has been carefully edited by an experienced literary editor, then formatted to produce a book that is a pleasure to read. These editions are printed by CreateSpace (an Amazon company), so as to keep the purchase prices as low as possible without compromising on quality.

The Best Victorian Ghost Stories
The Best Victorian Ghost Stories

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-09-04

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781501066092

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Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.