Dangerous Ghosts

Dangerous Ghosts presents Elliott O'Donnell’s accounts of apparitions and other supernatural entities said to threaten people mentally or physically. Rather than developing a theory of haunting, the book assembles anecdotes presented as true, while acknowledging that some rest on slight or nonexistent evidence.

Among the reported cases is a female apparition encountered on Fair Snape Fell in Lancashire, presented in the manner of an alluring but dangerous figure on the moors. O'Donnell also considers the different forms danger may take, from direct physical harm to psychological terror, as experienced by those who claim to have met ghosts or monsters. The result is a compact collection of perilous haunting narratives, characteristic of his later work as a prolific chronicler of ghost lore.