The Haunting of Borley Rectory

‘It is not necessary to believe in ghosts to appreciate a good ghost story. We all believe in death.’ – Audrey Niffenegger
‘I believe Sean O’Connor’s is the book on Borley I have been waiting for all my life. He has a perfect ear for drama.’ – Roger Clarke, author of A Natural History of Ghosts
‘Borley Rectory is perhaps the definition of an old haunt, still exerting an extraordinary grip on the popular imagination. In Sean O’Connor’s meticulous and revelatory book, however, it comes up as fresh as paint. Balanced, surprising and strangely moving, this is the definitive account’.

– Mark Gatiss
‘I thought I knew all there was to know about this legendary haunting. It turns out I have been sitting in the dark. Sean O’Connor’s book bursts open the doors of Borley Rectory and turns the lights on. Arresting and full of remarkable details, this investigation of an investigation is vividly compelling.’ – Reece Shearsmith

SEAN O’CONNOR is a writer, director, and producer working in theatre, radio, television, and film. He has worked as showrunner on several major TV series, including EastEnders, Hollyoaks, Footballers’ Wives, and Minder. In 2011, he produced Terence Davies’ film version of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston. From 2012 to 2016, he was editor of The Archers for BBC Radio 4 and also produced Lynda Snell’s productions of Calendar Girls and Blithe Spirit.

For the theatre, he has adapted Boileau and Narcejac’s Vertigo and Winston Graham’s Marnie. His adaptation from Shakespeare, Juliet and Her Romeo, re-opened Bristol Old Vic in 2010, directed by Tom Morris, and was published by Oberon. In 2013, he published Handsome Brute, a study of the 1940s murderer Neville Heath.

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