The Most Haunted House in England

Harry Price’s account centres on Borley Rectory in Essex, a Victorian parsonage surrounded by reports of footsteps, moving objects, phantom coach sounds and a spectral nun. The book traces the building’s history and gathers testimony connected with the successive families who lived there, before describing Price’s own investigations.

A later phase of the inquiry involved renting the empty rectory and arranging organised observation by a team of investigators. Their records include alleged disturbances in rooms, stairways, gardens and outbuildings, while the book also preserves the folklore and stories that helped establish Borley’s reputation. As a central document in the history of British psychical research, it presents the haunting through reported experiences, investigation and Price’s interpretation of the evidence.