Shane Leslie's Ghost Book

Shane Leslie's Ghost Book examines reported encounters with the dead alongside the Catholic Church’s understanding of psychical phenomena. Its opening sections consider apparitions after death, church-related experiences and poltergeists before turning to a larger collection of Catholic ghost stories.

The accounts include a priest mysteriously summoned to a deathbed, a dead parish priest visiting his successor, and a lady ghost attending midnight Mass. Other reports describe children apparently learning plainchant from a table, a nun repeatedly seen cleaning convent steps, and a house where occupants were tempted towards suicide. References to Borley Rectory, Lord Halifax and mediumship place these stories within wider discussions of psychical research and religious belief.