{"product_id":"a-natural-history-of-ghosts-9781846143335","title":"A Natural History of Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Is there anybody out there?\" No matter how rationally we order our lives  few of us are completely immune to the suggestion of the uncanny and the fear of the dark. What explains sightings of ghosts? Why do they fascinate us? What exactly do those who have been haunted see? What did they believe? And what proof is there?  Taking us through the key hauntings that have obsessed the world  from the true events that inspired Henry Jamess classic The Turn of the Screw right up to the present day  Roger Clarke unfolds a story of class conflict  charlatans  and true believers. The cast list includes royalty and prime ministers  Samuel Johnson  John Wesley  Harry Houdini  and Adolf Hitler. The chapters cover everything from religious beliefs to modern developments in neuroscience  the medicine of ghosts  and the technology of ghosthunting. There are haunted WWI submarines  houses so blighted by phantoms they are demolished  a seventeenth-century Ghost Hunter General  and the emergence of the Victorian flash mob  where hundreds would stand outside rumored sites all night waiting to catch sight of a dead face at a window.  Written as grippingly as the best ghost fiction  A Natural History of Ghosts takes us on an unforgettable hunt through the most haunted places of the last five hundred years and our longing to believe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652946419765,"sku":"ByrdShop_1846143330","price":801.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781846143335.jpg?v=1781854246","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-natural-history-of-ghosts-9781846143335","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}