SOME HAUNTED HOUSES
NOVELS BY
ELLIOTT O’DONNELL
- FOR SATAN’S SAKE
- THE UNKNOWN DEPTHS
- JENNIE BARLOWE, ADVENTURESS
- DINEVAH THE BEAUTIFUL
SOME
HAUNTED HOUSES
OF ENGLAND & WALES
BY
ELLIOTT O’DONNELL
ASSOCIATE OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
LONDON
EVELEIGH NASH
FAWSIDE HOUSE
1908
PREFACE
In selecting a series of ghost stories for this volumeI have taken the greatest care to make use of thoseonly which are thoroughly well authenticated.
The result of this discrimination has been thatthe majority of these accounts of psychic phenomenahave been taken from the lips of eye-witnesses andtransferred to manuscript in as nearly as possiblethe narrator’s own language.
First-hand narratives of unfamiliar hauntings,albeit they refer to the meaner class of houses, will,I think, be more welcome to the reader than themere repetition of such hackneyed stories as thoseappertaining to Glamis Castle, the Tower ofLondon, &c.
In one other point, too, this work may be said todiffer from others dealing with the same subject—viz.,it is compiled and written by a very keenpsychic—one who has not only investigated (andlectured on) haunted houses, but has himself seenmany occult manifestations.
As there have been several libel cases quiterecently in connection with the alleged hauntingof houses, I have been obliged (save where it isstated to the contrary) to give fictitious names toboth people and localities.
Elliott O’Donnell.
Guilsborough, Northampton.