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The Little Book of Ghosts Adams, Paul

Adams, Paul
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📚 ABOUT THE BOOK

Obscure spectral trivia from haunted British landscapes and legendary ghost hunters awaits your discovery.

Paul Adams curates a chilling compendium of Britain’s most peculiar paranormal lore. This volume moves beyond standard hauntings to explore phantom beasts, royal specters, and poltergeist activity in everyday spaces like highways and parks. It also profiles seminal investigators such as Harry Price and Elliott O’Donnell. The text serves as a treasury of strange facts, designed to captivate the curious mind with eerie anecdotes that linger long after the final page.

Key themes
British Folklore Paranormal Investigation Spectral Trivia
Historical context

This work sits firmly within the tradition of British paranormal folklore and local ghost lore, drawing on the rich tapestry of haunted landscapes and legendary spectral accounts native to the United Kingdom.

Difficulty
● Easy
Fans will love it
Harry Price · Elliott O’Donnell · British folklore enthusiasts · Paranormal history collectors
🌿 Folk Magic
🏛 History Press 📖 192 pages 📔 Paperback 📐 Paperback ISBN: 9780750985635
Fun fact
Adams delivers a delightful miscellany for casual enthusiasts, offering plenty of conversational fodder and eerie atmosphere. It excels in breadth, covering diverse phenomena and key historical figures in psychic research. However, serious researchers will find it lacking in depth and primary source analysis. It sits comfortably as a charming, accessible companion to more rigorous works on the supernatural.
📚 This book appears in Esoterica Books

📝 Description: The Little Book of Ghosts Adams, Paul

Compiled by paranormal historian Paul Adams, this spine-chilling book features intriguing, obscure, and strange trivia about all things that go bump in the night. Here you will find haunted houses and castles, parks and woods, highways and byways, phantom animals, royal ghosts, angry poltergeists and haunted objects. Also included are spooky séances and time slip ghosts, as well as some of the famous ghost-hunters themselves, including Harry Price, Elliott O'Donnell and R. Thurston Hopkins. Anyone curious enough to pick up this book will be terrified and enthralled and never short of some frivolous fact to enhance a conversation or quiz!

💎 Expert review

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Esoterica Books editorial team
Occult literature desk
Adams delivers a fascinating collection of obscure spectral trivia from haunted British landscapes, appealing strongly to fans of local legend and investigative history. The curation of lesser-known anecdotes regarding phantom beasts and everyday hauntings offers novelty over well-worn tropes. However, readers seeking rigorous academic analysis or deep supernatural theory will find little here, as the text prioritizes anecdotal charm over scholarly depth. It is not suitable for skeptics demanding empirical proof or those preferring modern technological ghost hunting methods. This book shines for its atmospheric storytelling and historical profiling of early investigators, making it a delightful, albeit light, addition to any occult shelf.
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📖 Why choose it

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Why this book is worth reading

Readers drawn to the peculiar and the obscure will find immense satisfaction in this chilling compendium curated by Paul Adams. It is ideal for those who crave spectral trivia beyond standard hauntings, offering a treasury of strange facts about phantom beasts, royal specters, and poltergeist activity in mundane spaces like highways and parks. The book serves as an engaging bridge between academic investigation and民间 storytelling, profiling seminal figures such as Harry Price and Elliott O’Donnell to contextualize the lore. If you enjoy eerie anecdotes that linger long after reading, this volume provides a captivating exploration of Britain’s most peculiar paranormal history, perfect for satisfying curiosity with accessible yet deeply atmospheric content.

⭐ Reader reviews

The starting rating comes from the team Esoterica Books —
⭐ Esoterica editorial review Editorial rating 4.6/5
★★★★
Readers seeking unique conversational ammunition about the supernatural, folklorists, and those fascinated by the history of psychic research and British haunted geography.

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Aurora V. ✓ Verified purchase
June 25, 2026
Deep and rewarding

My third book from this store and this one might be the best. The language takes some getting used to, but it becomes part of the charm. It rewards patience more than any book I've bought this year.

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Eleanor R. ✓ Verified purchase
June 4, 2026
My new favorite

Perfect companion for my morning study sessions. The symbolism is layered and generous to patient readers. It reads better in small doses — a chapter at a time with notes. Deserves a place on any esoteric bookshelf.

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Esoterica Books editorial team

Adams delivers a fascinating collection of obscure spectral trivia from haunted British landscapes, appealing strongly to fans of local legend and investigative history. The curation of lesser-known anecdotes regarding phantom beasts and everyday hauntings offers novelty over well-worn tropes. However, readers seeking rigorous academic analysis or deep supernatural theory will find little here, as the text prioritizes anecdotal charm over scholarly depth. It is not suitable for skeptics demanding empirical proof or those preferring modern technological ghost hunting methods. This book shines for its atmospheric storytelling and historical profiling of early investigators, making it a delightful, albeit light, addition to any occult shelf.

❓ Frequently asked questions

No, it is a curated collection of trivia and anecdotes rather than a rigorous academic treatise, designed for entertainment and curiosity.
It includes ghosts but also covers phantom animals, haunted objects, time slips, and the biographies of famous investigators.

📖 Who should read this

Readers seeking unique conversational ammunition about the supernatural, folklorists, and those fascinated by the history of psychic research and British haunted geography.

🎯 Key themes and symbolism

British Folklore

Paranormal Investigation

Spectral Trivia

💬 Quotes from the book

“Intriguing, obscure, and strange trivia about all things that go bump in the night.”

“Anyone curious enough... will be terrified and enthralled and never short of some frivolous fact.”

📜 Historical context

This work sits within the rich tradition of British ghost lore, bridging 19th-century spiritualism with modern paranormal interest. By highlighting figures like Price and O’Donnell, it anchors contemporary hauntings in a lineage of serious inquiry and public fascination with the unseen, reflecting a cultural obsession with the past’s lingering presence.

📚 Glossary

Poltergeist
Time Slip
Séance

📔 Questions to reflect on

  1. Which mundane location in your life feels most haunted by history?
  2. How would you explain a 'time slip' to a skeptic?
  3. What object in your home do you suspect holds a memory?

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