The Most Haunted House in England: Ten Years' Investigation of Borley Rectory (Collector's Library of the Unknown) [Hardcover]

Harry Price (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1989 | Series: Collector's Library of the Unknown

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 259 pages
• Publisher: Time Life Education; REPRINT Edition edition (November 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809480581
• ISBN-13: 978-0809480586
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My mother lived there., October 28, 1997

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This review is from: The Most Haunted House in England: Ten Years' Investigation of Borley Rectory (Collector's Library of the Unknown) (Hardcover)

The official watershed on Borley Rectory. My mother lived there as Marianne Foyster. Elaborates Foyster phenomena, including excerpts from Lionel's writings. It was during the Foyster incumbancy that Price alleged over 2,000 paranormal evnets took place. They stayed for five years: 1930-35. Concludes there were too many happenings for all of them to be attributed to natural causes. Cites hundreds of witnesses, many prior to the incumbancy of the Foyster's.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most terrifying book I have ever read..., July 31, 1999

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This review is from: The Most Haunted House in England: Ten Years' Investigation of Borley Rectory (Collector's Library of the Unknown) (Hardcover)

This book was responsible for keeping me up many a night. This story puts the "Blair Witch Project" to shame, in its accurate and frightening depiction of the events and history of the Borley Rectory. If you read one ghost story in your life, make this one it.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars But Is It True?, December 26, 2002

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This review is from: The Most Haunted House in England: Ten Years' Investigation of Borley Rectory (Collector's Library of the Unknown) (Hardcover)

The haunting of the Borley Rectory is perhaps the most famous ghost story of all.This book is a wonderful book. But how much of what described here is actually true? Harry Price was an unpopular man-even his supporters disliked him.After his death there was a re-appraisal of this case and it was largely discredited. As Price himself notes in his book, much of the evidence provided by the Foysters was dicey-Ms. Foyster could have faked it. The actual rectory itself burned to the ground,an event often described as "possibly supernatural." In fact, it was deliberately set afire by the last owner for the insurance money (his own sons admit it.) Since no trace of the building has been left, "parapsychologists" have decided that the whole area is haunted now. They claim that the village church is haunted. I believe in "ghosts" and haunted houses,but there is a great deal of evidence against this specific case which is being ignored because the story is so compelling and well told.This story isn't as one sided as you would imagine from the reviews of this book.