Haunted People

Haunted People presents Elliott O'Donnell’s casebook of reported apparitions, drawing on ghost accounts and folklore rather than fictional storytelling. Its subject coverage includes hauntings associated with people, traditions and remembered encounters with the dead.

The book also contains material connected with Virginia, giving its British author’s collection a wider geographical reach than a purely local survey. O’Donnell’s approach places individual reports alongside the beliefs and stories that helped preserve them, making the volume a record of claimed experiences as well as the folklore surrounding them. It belongs to the later period of his long publishing career, when he was known for assembling books devoted to ghosts and related phenomena.