Originally published under title: A natural history of ghosts : 500 years of hunting for proof. London : Particular Books, 2012.
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Summary
Few of us are completely immune to the suggestion of the uncanny and the fear of the dark. Taking us through hauntings that have obsessed the world, Roger Clarke unfolds a story of class conflict, charlatans, and true believers. Written as grippingly as the best ghost fiction, it is a chronicle of the most haunted places of the last five hundred years -- and of our longing to believe.