Browse books on psychical research from the UK and Ireland, including investigations of ghosts, mediumship, unusual experiences and other claimed paranormal phenomena. These works follow the long history of attempts to study extraordinary experiences in a systematic way.
75 books found
Cover unavailableStella C: An Account of Some Original Experiments in Psychical Research
Harry Price’s account centres on his 1923 sittings with Dorothy Stella Cranshaw, the physical medium known as Stella C. Nineteen sessions were held in London between February and July, with the proceedings recorded through controlled…
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Cover unavailableSupernatural England
Supernatural England brings together material on English folklore, occultism and parapsychology, presenting the subject through reports, beliefs and traditions associated with supernatural experience. Eric Maple places these themes within an English setting rather than treating…
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The Borley Rectory Companion
The Borley Rectory Companion traces the history of the Essex house from its construction in 1862 to the fire that destroyed it in 1939. Alongside the rectory’s changing occupants, the authors catalogue reported phenomena including…
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Cover unavailableThe Complete Book of Dowsing and Divining
The Complete Book of Dowsing and Divining examines the history, methods and disputed evidence surrounding dowsing, from traditional forked twigs and pendulums to divining rods, motorscopes and bare-handed techniques. Peter Underwood considers whether these practices…
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Cover unavailableThe Flying Cow
The Flying Cow presents Guy Lyon Playfair’s investigations into reported psychic phenomena in Brazil, drawing on his involvement with the Brazilian Institute for Psychobiophysical Research. Its subjects include celebrated and controversial figures such as Chico…
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Cover unavailableThe Founders of Psychical Research
Alan Gauld’s study centres on Henry Sidgwick, Edmund Gurney and Frederic Myers, whose work helped shape the early Society for Psychical Research. It begins with modern Spiritualism in America between 1848 and 1855, follows its…
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Cover unavailableThe Geller Effect
The Geller Effect combines Guy Lyon Playfair’s investigative account with Uri Geller’s own narrative of his career and claimed abilities. Its three-part structure follows Geller’s activities from around 1975, including work in Mexico, encounters involving…
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Cover unavailableThe Ghost Lab: Paranormal Meets Science
The Ghost Lab: Paranormal Meets Science examines how scientific concepts are applied to reports of ghosts and other paranormal experiences. Steve Higgins discusses the electromagnetic spectrum, instrumental transcommunication and electronic methods used in attempts to…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunting of Alma Fielding
The Haunting of Alma Fielding reconstructs a reported 1938 poltergeist case in suburban Croydon, where crockery and eggs were said to fly, jewellery appeared on Alma’s fingers, and white mice emerged from her handbag. The…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunting of Willington Mill
The Haunting of Willington Mill reconstructs the nineteenth-century reports surrounding a mill and mill house near Wallsend, where witnesses described unexplained noises, apparitions and poltergeist activity. The accounts include disturbances associated with the Procter family…
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Cover unavailableThe Heyday of Mental Mediumship 1880s-1930s
Alan Gauld examines the period from the 1880s to the 1930s, when mental mediumship became a sustained subject of investigation in Britain, Europe and the United States. The book follows the development of organised psychical…
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Cover unavailableThe History & Mystery of Parapsychology
The History & Mystery of Parapsychology surveys extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, hauntings and near-death experiences through their historical, scientific and psychological contexts. Steve Higgins considers how researchers have investigated claims of telepathy, mind over matter and…
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Cover unavailableThe Indefinite Boundary
The Indefinite Boundary examines the relationship between matter and spirit through Guy Lyon Playfair’s review of evidence for psychic phenomena. The book considers claims that appear to challenge a strictly material explanation of human experience,…
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Cover unavailableThe Paranormal Encyclopaedia
The Paranormal Encyclopaedia gathers definitions and discussions of more than 200 subjects associated with paranormal belief and investigation. Steve Higgins covers ghosts, UFOs, cryptids, psychic phenomena and parapsychology, providing an accessible reference to the terms,…
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Cover unavailableThe Poltergeist Casebook
John West reviews notable poltergeist cases, drawing together historical records, witnesses’ accounts and later investigations. The selection includes Cock Lane, Epworth, Enfield, the Black Monk of Pontefract and the Bell Witch. Alongside descriptions of alleged…
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Cover unavailableThe Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
Sam Knight’s book recounts the story of John Barker, a British psychiatrist whose interest in clairvoyance led him to establish a Premonitions Bureau with Evening Standard science editor Peter Fairley. Their project followed reports that…
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Cover unavailableThe Psychic Detectives
The Psychic Detectives examines psychometry, the claimed ability to obtain impressions from objects linked with people, places or events. Colin Wilson places this practice within the broader history of psychical research, considering how psychic perception…
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Cover unavailableThe Science of Weird Shit
The Science of Weird Shit examines paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences through the lens of anomalistic psychology. Chris French considers ghostly encounters, communication with the dead, alien abduction, reincarnation and UFO sightings, alongside out-of-body and…
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Cover unavailableThe Scole Report
The Scole Report records an investigation into a mediumistic group holding séances in a private house in Scole, Norfolk. David Fontana, Montague Keen and Arthur Ellison describe sittings conducted between 1995 and 1997, detailing reported…
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Cover unavailableThe Search for Harry Price
The Search for Harry Price is a critical biography of the British psychical researcher and public ghost investigator Harry Price, who died in 1948. Trevor H. Hall examines Price’s background, career and published claims, questioning…
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Cover unavailableThe Seen and the Unseen
The Seen and the Unseen examines reported presences, apparitions and other experiences gathered under the broad heading of psychical research. Its 30 chapters are arranged in five sections, beginning with sensed presences and moving through…
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Cover unavailableThe Sixth Sense
Sixth Sense: Psychic Powers and Your Five Senses examines claims of psychic ability alongside the ordinary sensory faculties used in everyday life. Jenny Randles considers how experiences described as extrasensory perception might relate to seeing,…
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Cover unavailableThe Unexplained: Some Strange Cases of Psychical Research
Andrew MacKenzie examines reported psychical phenomena through a series of case studies, considering both the testimony surrounding them and possible explanations. The opening discussion addresses hallucinations and physical causes, setting an investigative tone rather than…
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Cover unavailableTwin Telepathy: The Psychic Connection
Twin Telepathy: The Psychic Connection examines reports that twins, especially identical twins, can share thoughts, sensations, dreams or reactions despite being apart. Guy Lyon Playfair brings together historical cases, personal testimonies and investigations into claims…
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Cover unavailableWhy Mystery Matters
Neil Nixon and E. K. Knight explore what mystery contributes to human experience, moving between unexplained phenomena, religious belief, entertainment and psychology. UFO accounts sit alongside stand-up comedy and the unusual condition in which people…
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Cover unavailableWill Storr vs. the Supernatural
Will Storr investigates reported hauntings, ghost hunters and the psychology of supernatural belief, beginning with a meeting with Philadelphia demonologist Lou Gentile. Experiences involving strange lights and disturbing sounds prompt him to examine claims he…
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Cover unavailableZones of Strangeness: An Examination of Paranormal and UFO Hot Spots
Peter McCue examines locations associated with clusters of paranormal and UFO reports, asking why certain places repeatedly attract strange experiences. The book draws together cases involving apparitions, unusual lights, anomalous creatures and other unexplained phenomena.
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