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O'Donnell, Elliot.
The Haunted Man.
Publisher: Heath, Cranton, Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1917
Stock Code: 14976
First edition. Octavo, pp., 292. Publisher’s original crimson cloth, titled in black to spine and upper board. Printed on war economy standard paper. Historic library call number on paper label to spine, and in ink to front free end-paper. Some fading to spine, soiling to cloth, corners bumped and rubbed, lower hinge cracked but holding. Toning to contents commensurate with age and paper quality. A well-used but very serviceable copy. A rare work by the English-Irish parapsychologist and ghost hunter Elliot O’Donnell (1872-1965). O’Donnell wrote over fifty works on the supernatural, frequently blending elements of true-crime, psychical research, fantasy, and fictive embellishment to produce immensely popular books on ghosts, werewolves, banshees, vampires, poltergeists, cults, and secret societies (EBSCO). This volume concerns a frequent subject of O’Donnell’s work, real world accounts of haunting and possession. £125.00