London: J. & R. Tonson, 1765. Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo (7" x 4"). 72pp. Recent half brown cloth with marbled paper boards & paper title label on front board; new endpapers. B/w frontis. Title page in red and black. An attractive early edition of this well-known comedic play by Joseph... More about The Drummer: or, the Haunted-House - a comedy
London: Doubleday, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 256pp. Black cloth gilt-lettered on spine. A well researched examination of the true life story of the exorcism portrayed in the now famous 1973 movie "The Exorcist". Page-edges & margins lightly tanned, old bookseller sticker on front free endpaper, otherwise... More about Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism
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London: Nichols & Co. / Tutin, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 344pp + 29pp. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and gilt rules to upper board. Two titles in one volume each with its own title page. Published anonymously, both appear to have been written by British poet... More about A Spirit's Idea of Happiness [ AND ] Ghosts, through a Writing-Medium; Two Titles in One Volume
London: J. M. Richardson & J. Hatchard, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 242pp. Mid-nineteenth century patterned cloth, with gilt-lettered title label on spine. A narrative in verse - supposedly based in fact - which relates the story of a clothier named Kersey who, whilst attending the Weyhill Fair in... More about The Weyhill Ghost: a Tale, Founded on Fact, in Four Cantos, with some Smaller Pieces
[London]: np. [1680]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 4pp. Superb Elizabethan style craft binding by renowned London book-binder Bernard C. Middleton; full brown calf, with panels decorated and ruled in blind to the boards and raised bands & gilt title on spine. A tract that supposedly recounts an appearance before... More about A Relation of the Strange Apparition of the five Jesuits lately executed at Tyburn upon the...
London: Citizen T. G. Ballard, 1795. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Pamphlet. 8pp. (inclusive of wrappers). A popular - if gruesome - political satire with added satirical ghost story. The radical work known as "Pitt's Death" was first published in the London paper "The Telegraph" on 20th, 21st, and 24th of... More about Pitt's Ghost. Being an account of the Death, Dissection, Funeral procession, Epitaph, and...
New York, NY: McGraw- Hill Book Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover, large 8vo, xii + 338pp. Dark blue quarter-cloth with white titling to spine and light blue papered boards. Spine ends, edges, and corners very lightly bumped and faded. Overall, a bright and tight VG+ copy in VG dustjacket. (Dustjacket... More about Psi Trek. A World-Wide Investigation into the Lives of Psychic People and the Researchers who...
Doncaster: W. Sheardowns, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1. Octavo (8.5" x 5"). Vol. I: xvi + 258; Vol. II: iv + 260. Superb modern half leather craft binding by renowned London book-binder, Bernard C. Middleton. Half brown calf over marbled paper boards. Spine has raised bands, with... More about Essays on Various Subjects. Vol. I and Vol. II ( 2 volumes in one
London: Bodley Head, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 252pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering, b&w illustrations. The author explores mysteries world-wide, including giant man-eating crocodiles, fire-breathing dragons, underground elephants, the disappearance and rediscovery of the bomber "Lady Be Good" in the Sahara, and many other curiosities. Light foxing to..... More about Mysteries. Encounters with the Unexplained
London: Century, 2007. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 372pp. Black cloth with gilt-lettered on spine. Index. "The story of a small group of scientists who launched a determined scientific investigation into the 'unexplainable' incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations that had suddenly become national obsessions." Page-edges lightly age-toned, else... More about Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
New York: Moffat Yard and Co., 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. x + 234pp+ iipp adverts. Original olive cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Henry Addington Bayley Bruce (1874 - 1959), was an American journalist and psychical researcher with an interest in psychology. In this, his... More about Historic Ghosts and Ghost-hunters
London: Johnston & Bacon, 1973. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Pocket-sized paperback. 92pp. A Dutch correspondent's exploration of some of the quirkier sides of British culture, such as "ghosts, Druids, art auctions, steam trains and witches." There are passing references to Aleister Crowley in the witchcraft chapter. B/w illustrations. A tight... More about England Doesn't Exist
London: Edward Arnold, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. [viii] + 214pp. White cloth spine lettered in blue, blue cloth boards with dark blue title & device on upper board. The first of two collections of ghost stories written by British Sir Andrew Caldecott (1884 -1951) a British Civil Servant... More about Not Exactly Ghosts
New York, NY: The J.S.Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover, Small 8vo, 246pp + 10pp of adverts. Tan cloth with gilt titling to spine and black titling to upper board. Blind rules to upper board. Spine ends, edges, and corners lightly rubbed and bumped. Upper board chafed very slightly... More about True Ghost Stories
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo. x + 246pp. Black cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Index & bibliography. Played out in London in the 1760s, the Cock Lane Ghost is a true story of sexual infatuation, murderous accusations, and ghostly visitations. Top-edge age-toned, else a tight, clean near-Fine... More about The Cock Lane Ghost: Murder, Sex and Haunting in Dr. Johnson's London
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2002. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. xx + 504pp. Pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by one of the editors - R. A. Gilbert - on the title page. A thoughtfully chosen anthology of English ghost stories, collecting some of the best and most frightening tales from the early 19th... More about The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
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Isle of Man: Athol Publications, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Small 8vo. Periodical. 96pp. Pictorial paper covers, stapled binding. b&w illustrations. Reader's Forum includes a letter to the Editor from Arnold Crowther which comments on a letter in an earlier issue from Doreen Valiente on the subject of mud slinging. Also..... More about Fate [ Magazine ] March 1965 ( Vol. II, no. 3
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 260pp. [ ii pp ]. Blue cloth spine lettered in gilt, white papered boards. B/w plates. The first edition of the story of one of America’s most terrifying true haunting’s which took place from 1974 to 1987... More about The Haunted: One Family's Nightmare
Manchester, England: Crécy Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv + 144pp. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Index. B/w illustrations. The author explores the folklore of strange aeronautical phenomena, such as phantom aircrew and spectral aircraft. Although the copyright page indicates this to be Volume I of..... More about Echoes in the Air: A Chronicle of Aeronautical Ghost Stories
London: Hutchinson, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 286pp. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. The British character actor (known for many years as "The Man in Black", the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series Appointment with Fear and for appearances on the Goon Show) undertakes a Fortean... More about Unsolved Mysteries: A Collection of Weird Problems (from the Past
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 274pp. + 14pp. ads. Green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Fresh endpapers. A collection of accounts of the supernatural. Chapters are: "The Salem Witchcraft", "Children", "The Cock-Lane Ghost", "Humany Testimony", "The Rochester Rappings", "The Strafford Mysteries", "The Voice of God"... More about Mysteries; or, Glimpses Of The Supernatural. Containing Accounts oF the Salem Witchcraft - The...
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Second Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, iv, 296 pp, xiipp. Original green cloth with gilt title, etc to spine, blind stamped design on front cover, index. "Couched in sparklingly humorous terms, this is a basically serious frontal assault -with intent to maim -on illogic, wishful... More about The Spoor of Spooks and Other Nonsense
North Yorkshire, UK: Dalesman Books, 1976. Reprint. Softcover. Slim octavo. 80pp. B/w illustrations. An entertaining collection of ghostly and supernatural folk-lore from Lancashire. Wrappers lightly rubbed, hint of foxing to top-edge, small erasure spot on front free endpaper, else a tight, clean VG copy. More about Lancashire Ghosts
London: Griffith & Farrar, 1882. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo. (ii) 88pp. (+ 2pp. adverts.) Original pictorial wrappers. Adverts on inside covers, front and rear. A supposedly true ghost story with a truly mysterious twist. In September 1861 Charles Dickens published a supposedly true tale of a ghostly encounter, entitled... More about A Wonderful Ghost Story, being Mr. H's Own Narrative reprinted from "All The Year...
London: Frederick Muller, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 280pp. Blue cloth with gilt letting to spine, b&w illustrations, author biographies. An illustrated collection of tales of ghosts and hauntings at British Inns. Corners and spine ends a bit bumped and rubbed, page edges a little darkened and thumbed otherwise..... More about Haunted Inns
