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Product Description: A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice"Roger Clarke tells this [the story that inspired Henry James' The Turn of the Screw] and many other gloriously weird stories with real verve, and also a kind of narrative authority that tends to constrain the skeptical voice within⦠[an] erudite and richly entertaining book...read more
Hardcover:
9781410477606 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 18, 2015), cover price $31.99
9781250053572 | St Martins Pr, October 7, 2014, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice"Roger Clarke tells this [the story that inspired Henry James' The Turn of the Screw] and many other gloriously weird stories with real verve, and also a kind of narrative authority that tends to constrain the skeptical voice within⦠[an] erudite and richly entertaining book.
Paperback:
9781250076090 | Reissue edition (Griffin, October 6, 2015), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice"Roger Clarke tells this [the story that inspired Henry James' The Turn of the Screw] and many other gloriously weird stories with real verve, and also a kind of narrative authority that tends to constrain the skeptical voice within⦠[an] erudite and richly entertaining book.
Hardcover:
9781605298757 | Rodale Pr, September 29, 2009, cover price $25.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781522697459, titled "A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Seances, Mediums, Ghosts and Ghostbusters" | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, July 26, 2016), cover price $9.99
Hardcover:
9781780235172 | Reaktion Books, October 15, 2015, cover price $25.00
Paperback:
9780471579885, titled "Getting Started in Futures" | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | also contains Getting Started in Futures | About this edition: Explains the basic terms and concepts of the futures market, discusses investment strategies, and includes tips on risk management
Paperback:
9780738713632 | Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd, September 1, 2008, cover price $15.95
Describes key events and personalities in the paranormal world from the first references to ghosts in Neolithic cave paintings to the modern day obsession with media ghosts. Opening with a history of hauntings throughout the ages, this book delves into the origins of festivals that honour the dead and their links to the realm of the paranormal.
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9781845376871 | New Holland Pub Ltd, August 31, 2007, cover price $35.90 | About this edition: Describes key events and personalities in the paranormal world from the first references to ghosts in Neolithic cave paintings to the modern day obsession with media ghosts.
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9780752439358 | Tempus Pub Ltd, April 1, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of ghost phenomena from the ancient world and the ways in which people have tried to deal with the hope, the fear, the curiosity, and the disbelief which ghosts have aroused.
Examines reports of ghosts from different periods of time--ancient Greece, the early Christian era, the Reformation, the Victorian age, and the twentieth century--and compares how elements of sightings have changed through the ages
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9781573920681 | Prometheus Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Examines reports of ghosts from different periods of time--ancient Greece, the early Christian era, the Reformation, the Victorian age, and the twentieth century--and compares how elements of sightings have changed through the ages
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