Haunted Houses of London

Haunted Houses of London gathers Elliott O'Donnell’s accounts of reported apparitions and other alleged phenomena attached to London houses, institutions and public spaces. The contents range from Baker Street, Earls Court Road and York Road to Ealing, Chelsea and the parks of London, giving the book a distinctly local and street-by-street character.

Among its stranger cases are a supposed haunting at the Oriental Department of the British Museum, a gliding dachshund and a moving staircase in Wandsworth. Other chapters concern locations near Penge, Edgware Road, Cheyne Walk and Portman Square, before turning to theories, speculations and enigmas about the causes and meaning of these reported manifestations.