A Dreadful Drumming
Theo Tait: Ghosts, 6 June 2013
The Undiscovered Country: Journeys among the Dead
by Carl Watkins.
Bodley Head, 318 pp., £20, January 2012,978 1 84792 140 6 Show More
by Carl Watkins.
Bodley Head, 318 pp., £20, January 2012,
A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof
by Roger Clarke.
Particular, 360 pp., £20, November 2012,978 1 84614 333 5 Show More
by Roger Clarke.
Particular, 360 pp., £20, November 2012,
“... and the house was no longer troubled by spirits. As Clarke points out, this could be an M.R. James or Sheridan le Fanu story. One detail – the house was suspiciously cheap for its size – features in countless modern ghost stories of the Amityville type. There are, according to Clarke, eight main categories of ghostly phenomenon: traditional ghosts ... ”