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Author
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2012
Description
For the past 20 years, psychologist Richard Wiseman has immersed himself in the weird world of supernatural science; testing telepaths, spending nights in haunted castles and attempting to talk with the dead. In this work he cuts through the hype and goes in search of the truth behind stories of poltergeists and possession.
Author
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
2010
Description
This title sets out to be a practical guide to show how ghost hunting can be done to best effect. Examining cases of ghost hunting in the past and present (including examples good, bad and sometimes amusing), this title asks if it is possible to find the answer to the age-old question of ghosts.
Author
Publisher
Watkins
Pub. Date
2011
Description
World-renowned intellectual adventurer Colin Wilson takes a detailed look at the subject that has become the literary and popular culture phenomenon of the decade as he explores witchcraft, werewolves, vampires and other things that go bump in the night.
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Series
Publisher
Rising Stars
Pub. Date
2007
Description
This series of readers, developed in conjunction with NASEN, uses extreme sports and popular culture as themes to turn the reluctant reader and less able back to reading. Each book features: a short story, non-fiction information pages, and a bibliography.
Author
Publisher
HarperElement
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Did you wonder if your intentions, prayers or wishes have a calculable effect on the world? Here, accounts of scientific investigations and case histories prove that we are all connected and our intentions can be harnessed as a collective force for good.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
When her husband returns shell-shocked and broken from the Great War and his mother makes her life a misery, Betty Wellow discovers how bitter and hard life can truly be. But it is not until a devastating storm sweeps through their small fishing village and endangers her life, that she sees her chance to escape - and takes it. Fleeing to Bristol, she changes her name to Mabel Brook and takes a position as a maid. But tragedy strikes once more after...
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Publisher
A. & C. Black Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Description
From mediums employed by the police to help with psychic crime-busting to sea monster sightings reported to the Royal Navy, this book brings to light a range of secret documents created by military intelligence and government agencies who have investigated and even used extraordinary phenomena or powers in recent history.
Author
Publisher
Particular
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The subject of whether ghosts exist has fascinated some of the finest minds in history and it remains a subject of overwhelming interest today. This comprehensive history of the evolution of the ghost in the West examines the subject in its preferred environment - through the stories we tell each other.
Author
Publisher
Yen
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When Haruhi Suzumiya introduces herself to Kyon by asking if he's an alien, time traveler, or psychic, he knows his chances for a normal high school experience are ruined. Bold Haruhi takes a shine to him, and uses the force of her irrepressible personality to draft him into her club to find paranormal beings.
Author
Publisher
Yen
Pub. Date
2009
Description
When Haruhi Suzumiya introduces herself to Kyon by asking if he's an alien, time traveler, or psychic, he knows his chances for a normal high school experience are ruined. Bold Haruhi takes a shine to him, and uses the force of her irrepressible personality to draft him into her club to find paranormal beings.
Author
Publisher
Yen
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In her latest attempt to give the S.O.S. Brigade more public exposure, Haruhi signs the group up for the city-wide baseball tournament. Kyon manages to scrape together a full nine-person team, but it seems the only one with any talent for baseball is Haruhi. Ah well, it's just a friendly game, right? Not so.
Author
Publisher
Yen
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Kyon is your ordinary high school freshman who has long given up on his childhood dreams of encountering the fantastic and supernatural - or so he thought. From the first day of school, his classmate - the beautiful but eccentric Haruhi Suzumiya - makes it very clear that her only desire is to meet aliens, time travellers and psychics!
Author
Series
What Walks These Halls volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/O'Brien audio
Pub. Date
2024
Description
A prickling sensation grew on the back of her neck, spreading up her scalp. It was the feeling of being watched. She whirled to face the doorway but it was empty. Raven O'Sullivan doesn't remember what happened in Hyacinth House five years ago. When her father died during a paranormal investigation there, everyone said it was an accident, but she's pretty certain it's her fault. Her brother, Archer, wasn't there that night. When asked to investigate...
Author
Publisher
Yen
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Swapping her Brigade Chief armband for a director's chair, Haruhi begins production on 'The Adventures of Mikuru Asahin' - written, directed and produced by her. Haruhi seems to be making it up as she goes along and Kyon's having trouble keeping up with her when he's burdened with all the film equipment.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Description
It's almost Halloween in Pico Mundo, and that means it's time for the annual Safe Halloween Party. All seems perfectly normal - until Odd catches sight of the ghost of a young girl who seems to be trying to join in the festivities. Odd's next clue that something threatens his peaceful town is the appearance of a swarm of bodachs.
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize, A Pick of the Autumn 2020 in The Times, Sunday Times, Observer And The Guardian London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research - begins to investigate. In doing so he discovers a different and darker type of haunting:...