These gripping true ghost tales, together with some compelling legends, are among the most vivid collected by Elliott O’Donnell in more than half a century spent ghost-hunting. He writes of creeping hands, vengeful phantoms and tortured wraiths exactly as they were seen—from accounts by witnesses, and from records made at the time or shortly afterwards. Besides documenting the cases of others, O’Donnell has sat many nights’ vigils, alone, with well-known personalities. He has investigated numerous cases of supernatural phenomena, disturbing and horrifying, from inexplicable hauntings in lonely country mansions to houses in the heart of towns cursed by appalling events of the past. No one on reading these tales by Britain’s renowned ghost hunter can remain a skeptic. Or refrain from a shiver in the dark.