Elliott O'Donnell's Great Ghost Stories

Elliott O'Donnell's Great Ghost Stories brings together accounts drawn from the author's work as a writer and investigator of alleged hauntings. The collection combines reported apparitions with background on the places where they were said to occur, giving each story a sense of setting and history.

O'Donnell's approach ranges from personal experiences to accounts associated with haunted sites, preserving the tone of earlier 20th-century ghost literature. The incidents are presented as claims, traditions and testimony rather than proven supernatural events. Together, they reflect O'Donnell's long-standing interest in apparitions, haunted buildings and the stories attached to them, while offering a substantial example of the popular British ghost-book tradition of the 20th century.