Hmmm I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, it's a fascinating subject that I've never seen treated all in one place before, and the writer seems to know it inside-out; on the other, he often makes strange leaps, or frames a chapter around rather flimsy coincidence — one chapter tries to draw a line between the Martin Luther's conception of the word 'poltergeist' and the Third Reich ffs!

The chapter on M.R. James is pretty great though, so 🤷