The Little Book of Ghosts

Paul Adams gathers reported ghost stories and traditions from a broad range of settings, including haunted houses and castles, churches, roads, woods and byways. The book also considers phantom animals, royal ghosts, poltergeists and objects believed to carry a haunting, alongside accounts of séances and time-slip experiences.

The cases range from established items of ghost-lore, such as the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, to reports including the Bell Witch and the Bealings Bells. Adams also introduces notable investigators Harry Price, Elliott O’Donnell and R. Thurston Hopkins. Historical narratives, folklore and more recent personal testimonies sit together in a compact survey of the ways ghost stories are recorded and retold.