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Haunted Places in England

by Elliott O'Donnell

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

"Haunted Places in England" by Elliott O'Donnell is a collection of ghost stories and supernatural accounts written in the early 20th century. The book delves into various haunted locations across England, illustrating encounters with spirits and otherworldly phenomena. Each chapter explores different tales, as the author shares his experiences and the chilling histories of these spots, unsettling the reader with descriptions of eerie events and spectral encounters. The opening of the book introduces a haunted chair that the narrator acquires from a friend's flat. He recounts his unsettling experiences with the chair, which seems to possess a malevolent energy, causing a shift in the atmosphere of his home. As he spends nights in the chair, he feels its presence manifest through sounds and movements, eventually leading him to confront a spiritual encounter that hints at a deeper existential mystery. The storytelling evokes both suspense and intrigue, setting the tone for the supernatural explorations that follow in subsequent chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.

  • Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page and project-gutenberg matched “Ghosts” and “haunted”. Retained metadata contains “haunted” in the title, “Haunted places” in the title, “ghost” in the description, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Ghosts”· via The Online Books Page
    • “haunted”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “haunted”· in title
    • “Haunted places”· in title
    • “ghost”· in description
    • “haunted”· in description

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Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

London: Sands and Co., 1919

1919———Source listed online copy

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

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2013-12-09Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BF1461 .O25
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: London: Sands and Co., 1919
Catalog id
project-gutenberg:44397
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