Haunted Houses, Ghosts and Spectres

Haunted Houses, Ghosts and Spectres presents a compact collection of reported hauntings, ghost stories and spectre traditions in an illustrated Usborne guide. Its subject matter includes the notorious claims surrounding Borley Rectory and the investigations associated with Harry Price, alongside shorter accounts such as Lord Dufferin’s ghost, the screaming skull story and the haunting of Walsingham House.

Written by Eric Maple and Lynn Myring, the book belongs to Usborne’s 1970s Supernatural Guides series, which also covered mysterious forces and vampires, werewolves and demons. The presentation combines brief explanatory text with drawings and reproduced images, giving the volume the feel of an accessible reference book for younger readers while retaining its focus on traditional British ghost lore and documented reports.