Elliott O'Donnell

• Sep-2024
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Some Haunted Houses of England & Wales emerges as a masterful exploration of the liminal spaces where the natural and supernatural intersect. Elliott O'Donnell's prose achieves a rare synthesis of intellectual rigor and narrative artistry, inviting r...

• Mar-2015
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" ...]restless movement of his eyes, and an occasional peculiar twitching of his upper lip and hands. "A rum," John said at length, "or a gin? Or both?" "Rum." "Very good, let it be rum." He called the waiter, and a rum was served. "You're not drinki...

• Jul-2013
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In a country, such as Ireland, that is characterised by an arrestive and wildly beautiful scenery, it is not at all surprising to find something in the nature of a ghost harmonising with the general atmosphere and surroundings, and that something, ap...

• Jul-2013
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Whether all that constitutes man's spiritual nature, that is to say, ALL his mind, is inseparably amalgamated with the whitish mass of soft matter enclosed in his cranium and called his brain, is a question that must, one supposes, be ever open to de...

• Feb-2012
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Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post's Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatu...

• Feb-2011
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Wraiths, wirry-cows, goblins -- the folklore of Scotland is teeming with supernatural beings, haunted houses, spirits, and other spooky creatures, and in this volume, writer and researcher Elliott O'Donnell collects some of the best-known tales a...

• Mar-2010
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

In Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter, Elliott O'Donnell invites readers into a world where the boundary between life and the unseen is tantalizingly thin. This evocative collection explores the spectral presence of animals, portra...

I have, from time to time, witnessed many manifestations which I believe to have been superphysical, both from the peculiarity of their properties, and from the effects their presence invariably produced on me-an effect I cannot associate with anythi...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

Elliott O'Donnell (1872-1965) was an Irish author known primarily for his books about ghosts. He claimed to have seen a ghost, described as an elemental figure covered with spots, when he was five years old. He also claimed to have been strangled by ...