That Ghost I Saw

That Ghost I Saw gathers reported ghost encounters recounted by Danton Walker, presenting apparitions as intrusions into the lives of public figures and other unexpected witnesses. The settings are notably varied: a modern penthouse, a newly built ranch house, a theatre dressing-room and the busy office of a metropolitan newspaper.

Several accounts turn on curious incidents rather than conventional haunted-house narratives. One asks whether an unexplained impulse led Guthrie McClintic to post an unsent letter that altered his career; another links recurring mice with an approaching death in a neighbour’s household. Mae West also features in a story involving an unwelcome ghostly visitor, giving the collection a distinctly anecdotal and socially observant character.