Description

This shuddersome and riveting book is a record of personal experience in scores of haunted houses up and down Britain by an internationally-acknowledged expert on ghosts and the supernormal.

From the 'something large and white' that scuttled away into invisibility at a haunted cottage in Cambridgeshire, through seances at a haunting investigated at official level, to the spending of a stormy night at a lonely haunted church where several apparitions had been reported, movement of objects, unaccountable bell-ringing, mysterious noises, unexplained voices, curious odours and inexplicable door-locking, this unique and carefully documented record of a quarter-century of psychic investigation by the President of the ancient and highly-respected The Ghost Club, must present a serious challenge to the sceptic.

The work also includes a fascinating account of The Ghost Club - its history, function and aims plus a wealth of previously unpublished evidence for paranormal activity at Borley, famous as the Essex village containing 'the most haunted house in England'.

The author has been described as representing the 'middle-ground' attitude between extreme scepticism and uncritical belief. Colin Wilson, in a review of Peter Underwood's Into the Occult (1972) stated: 'Mr Underwood is a good writer who knows his subject'.

The book is illustrated with many striking photographs of houses, churches and places at which strange hauntings have taken place.

Jacket photograph: An actual photograph taken inside the famous Queen's House, Greenwich. The story of the ghostly apparition is told in the text. The picture shows the beautiful period stairway with a mysterious cowled figure (or possible two figures - note the fingers and the rings just below the wall sconce) creeping up the stairs.