The Hamlyn Book of Ghosts in Fact and Fiction

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There was a Beaver paperback edition of this horror starter pack in 1977, but this hardcover version seems to have been a fixture in the kids section of just about every public library in London (and elsewhere?

The World of the Unknown: Ghosts | Usborne | Be Curious The World of the Unknown: Ghosts | Usborne | Be Curious

I’ll try again…does anyone happen to know where I can view the whole contents of this book anywhere online?Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Farson, or to give him his full name, "Daniel Farson, great nephew of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula", authored books on the Ripper and The Man Who Was Dracula so no surprise to find the King Vampire biting a huge chunk out of the Horror Stories section ( Frankenstein, ]Dr. The Clifton House Mystery was one of several children's drama serials produced by Bristol's HTV in the '70s and '80s, many of which were on SF, fantasy or horror themes. Hamlyn Book of Ghosts in Fact and Fiction, The Book ID: 1209 Title: Hamlyn Book of Ghosts in Fact and Fiction, The Author: 'Farson, Daniel' ISBN number: 1-600-34053-8 Publisher name: The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd Place of publication: London, ENG Edition number: Ist edition Book type: Hardback First edition date: 1978 Pages: 157 Dewey decimal number: 133. I can only make sure if I can see the entire table of contents – all the stories, as well as see some more artistic illustrations from the book.

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Usborne responded in kind—or maybe it was simple coincidence—with their Supernatural Guides (1979), three of the most delightfully gruesome introductions to occult subjects ever published.

And a salut for good old Dennis Wheatley, according to whom vampire legends came from beggars living on the cemetery. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

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Things I remember from it were discovering for the first time that there was a real historical Dracula, Sawney Bean, stories of someone's corpse being so tall they had to break the legs to get it into the coffin (think this might have been a Stoker relative), and my first encounter with a figure with "an intensely horrible face of crumpled linen". He started his career as a journalist and appeared on several groundbreaking, investigatory news programs in the 1950s and early 1960s. His 27 books include biographies (including one on his great-uncle, Bram Stoker), several memoirs of bohemian Soho (of which he was a contributing rake), travelogues, and two horror novels.R. James) and Saucy Jack effortlessly trashing the opposition - Countess Bathory, Vlad, Stranglers Of Bombay, Sawney, Ivan the Terrible, Rasputin, Haigh - in Real Horrors.