{"product_id":"ghosts-paperback","title":"Ghosts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoger Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditor's Choice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive, authoritative and readable history of the evolution of the ghost in the west, examining the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebehavior\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e of the subject in its preferred environment: the stories we tell each other.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoger Clarke tells this  the story that inspired Henry James' \u003ci\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/i\u003e] and many other gloriously weird stories with real verve, and also a kind of narrative authority that tends to constrain the skeptical voice within...  An] erudite and richly entertaining book. --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo matter how rationally we order our lives, few of us are completely immune to the suggestion of the uncanny and the fear of the dark. What explains sightings of ghosts? Why do they fascinate us? What exactly do those who have been haunted see? What did they believe? And what proof is there? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking us through the key hauntings that have obsessed the world, from the true events that inspired Henry James's classic \u003ci\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/i\u003e right up to the present day, Roger Clarke unfolds a story of class conflict, charlatans, and true believers. The cast list includes royalty and prime ministers, Samuel Johnson, John Wesley, Harry Houdini, and Adolf Hitler. The chapters cover everything from religious beliefs to modern developments in neuroscience, the medicine of ghosts, and the technology of ghosthunting. There are haunted WWI submarines, houses so blighted by phantoms they are demolished, a seventeenth-century Ghost Hunter General, and the emergence of the Victorian flash mob, where hundreds would stand outside rumored sites all night waiting to catch sight of a dead face at a window. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten as grippingly as the best ghost fiction, \u003ci\u003eA Natural History of Ghosts \u003c\/i\u003etakes us on an unforgettable hunt through the most haunted places of the last five hundred years and our longing to believe.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eROGER CLARKE is best known as a film-writer for the \u003ci\u003eIndependent \u003c\/i\u003enewspaper and more recently \u003ci\u003eSight \u0026amp; Sound\u003c\/i\u003e. Inspired by a childhood spent in two haunted houses, Roger Clarke has spent much of his life trying to see a ghost. He was the youngest person ever to join the Society for Psychical Research in the 1980s and was getting his ghost stories published by The Pan \u0026amp; Fontana series of horror books at just 15, when Roald Dahl asked his agent to take him on as a client.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48193311932586,"sku":"9781250076090","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/1475\/4218\/files\/cUo2OVpibkFhVm1wd0Z3Wk80ZFp5Zz09.webp?v=1775793215","url":"https:\/\/wiccancenter.com\/it\/products\/ghosts-paperback","provider":"Wiccan Center","version":"1.0","type":"link"}