A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting
How to Investigate Paranormal Activity from Spirits and Hauntings to Poltergeists
$45.09
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2013
Summary
There has been an upsurge in books, television programmes, films and websites exploring the reality or otherwise of the spirit world. Not since the founding of The Ghost Club in 1862 and the Society for Psychical Research in 1882 has ghost hunting been so popular. Television and the internet, in particular, have fueled this new level of interest, creating a modern media phenomenon that spans the globe. But while the demand for information is high, good information remains scarce.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780338262 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780338260 |
| Author: | Leo Ruickbie |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Brief Histories |
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With so many ghost hunting guides available on the market, how does the aspiring ghost hunter know where to start? The answer is here, in Dr Leo Ruickbie’s no-nonsense and down-to-earth book, which is both an engaging read and a practical guide.
Dr Leo Ruickbie’s latest book achieves a very rare feat indeed: it succeeds in being scholarly, informative, meticulously researched and very absorbing. If you have ever considered setting out to find a ghost you could do no better than take your information from the pages of this fascinating work, which is a textbook example of how it should be done.Very useful and informative, extremely well researched and fluently written. Enjoyable and intriguing as well as exceptionally interesting.I have always admired Dr Leo Ruickbie’s comprehensive expertise in the paranormal. A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting delivers more than most other ghost guides combined.Every ghost hunter, whether professional or amateur should read this book. All will learn from it.A well-written comprehensive introduction … Ruickbie’s text could well become definitive. - Journal of the Society for Psychical ResearchFascinating book - Monsters and the Monstrous, vol 4, no 1 (Summer 2014)About The Author
Leo Ruickbie
Described as ‘a young Van Helsing’ in The Ghost Club Journal, Dr Leo Ruickbie has been investigating, writing about and experiencing the darker side of life - from Black Masses to haunted houses - for most of his professional career. He has a PhD from King’s College, London, on modern witchcraft and magic, and is the author of Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician, and A Brief Guide to the Supernatural, as well as being published in Fortean Times, Paranormal magazine and academic journals. His work has been mentioned in the media from The Guardian to Radio Jamaica, and his expertise has been sought by film companies and the likes of the International Society for Human Rights. He is an Associate of King’s College and a member of Societas Magica, the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, the Society for Psychical Research and the Ghost Club.
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