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The Haunting of Borley Rectory - The Story of a Ghost Story (Paperback)
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The Haunting of Borley Rectory - The Story of a Ghost Story (Paperback)
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Loot Price R251
Discovery Miles 2 510
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Marianne Foyster, Harry Price and the most haunted house in England
- the perfect read for Halloween.  ‘Borley Rectory is
perhaps the definition of an old haunt, still exerting an
extraordinary grip on the popular imagination… Balanced,
surprising and strangely moving’ Mark Gatiss  In
1928, Eric and Mabel Smith took over a lonely parish on the
northern border of Essex. When they moved into Borley Rectory, Mrs
Smith made a gruesome discovery in a cupboard: a human skull. Soon
the house was electric with ghosts. Within the year, the Smiths had
abandoned it and the Rectory became notorious as the ‘most
haunted house in England’. When Reverend Lionel Foyster moved in
he experienced a further explosion of poltergeist activity with an
increasing violence directed at his attractive young wife. Marianne
was a passionate and sensuous woman isolated in a village haunted
by ancient superstition and deep-rooted prejudice. She would be
accused not only of faking the ghosts but of adultery, bigamy –
and even murder. The haunting, sensationally reported in the
tabloid press, gripped the nation. It was investigated by Harry
Price, a self-made ‘psychic detective’. This was the case that
would make Price’s name as the most celebrated ghost-hunter of
the age. He recorded the evidence of 200 witnesses to over 2,000
supernatural incidents. This surely confirmed that not only did
ghosts exist but, finally, here was proof of life after death.
 With the tension of a thriller and the uncanny chills of a
classic English ghost story, Sean O’Connor brings the story of
Borley Rectory to vivid life as an allegory for an age fraught with
anxiety, haunted by the shadow of the Great War and terrified of
the apocalypse to come.
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