This "objective" approach was first widely championed and documented by Briton Harry Price in his 1940 tome, "The Most Haunted House in England," a classic in the field examining the haunting of Borley Rectory in Essex. The technology-laden art of ghost-hunting commonly practiced today (evidenced by the scads of popular ghost-hunting shows currently haunting your cable television for all the 26 weeks on either side of Halloween) is based largely on an extravagant array of exotic gadgets calibrated to detect the piercing of our earthly veil by ethereal forces otherwise immeasurable dispassionately.
The first three titles released in Tarcher's Supernatural Library are Ghost Hunter (by Hans Holzer), Romance of Sorcery (by Sax Rohmer) and Isis in America (by Henry Steel Olcott). Ghost Hunter presented some of the first-ever case studies of haunting investigations, taken from Holzer s own practice in the New York City area ranging from Civil War-era spirits to the tormented ghosts of murder victims.įor devoted ghost-hunting aficionados curious about the practice s history, there is no better place to start than the first book Hans Holzer wrote, Ghost Hunter.This is the 1963 book that launched his publishing career and gained him international fame. Holzer pioneered ghost-hunting methods still used today, and brought ghosts and ghost hunting into popular culture in the second half of the twentieth century.
The prestige edition of the classic, trail-blazing work on ghost hunting will intrigue new fans and longtime devotees alike part of the new Tarcher Supernatural Library.įifty years before Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters, and Most Haunted, there was Hans Holzer a man known as the Father of the Paranormal.
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