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The Haunting of Borley Rectory: The Story of a Ghost Story

English

By (author): Sean O'Connor

Marianne Foyster, Harry Price and the most haunted house in England - the perfect read for Halloween.
 
Borley Rectory is perhaps the definition of an old haunt, still exerting an extraordinary grip on the popular imagination Balanced, surprising and strangely moving  Mark Gatiss
 
In 1928, Eric and Mabel Smith took over a lonely parish on the northern border of Essex. When they moved into Borley Rectory, Mrs Smith made a gruesome discovery in a cupboard: a human skull. Soon the house was electric with ghosts. Within the year, the Smiths had abandoned it and the Rectory became notorious as the most haunted house in England.

When Reverend Lionel Foyster moved in he experienced a further explosion of poltergeist activity with an increasing violence directed at his attractive young wife. Marianne was a passionate and sensuous woman isolated in a village haunted by ancient superstition and deep-rooted prejudice. She would be accused not only of faking the ghosts but of adultery, bigamy and even murder.

The haunting, sensationally reported in the tabloid press, gripped the nation. It was investigated by Harry Price, a self-made psychic detective. This was the case that would make Prices name as the most celebrated ghost-hunter of the age. He recorded the evidence of 200 witnesses to over 2,000 supernatural incidents. This surely confirmed that not only did ghosts exist but, finally, here was proof of life after death.
 
With the tension of a thriller and the uncanny chills of a classic English ghost story, Sean OConnor brings the story of Borley Rectory to vivid life as an allegory for an age fraught with anxiety, haunted by the shadow of the Great War and terrified of the apocalypse to come.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 12 Oct 2023

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Oct 2023
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781471194795

About Sean O'Connor

SEAN O'CONNOR is a writer director and producer working in theatre radio television and film. He has worked as showrunner on several major TV series including EastEnders Hollyoaks Footballers' Wives and Minder. In 2011 he produced Terence Davies' film version of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston. From 2012 to 2016 he was editor of The Archers for BBC Radio 4 and also produced Lynda Snell's productions of Calendar Girls and Blithe Spirit.   For the theatre he has adapted Boileau and Narcejac's Vertigo and Winston Graham's Marnie. His adaptation from Shakespeare Juliet and Her Romeo re-opened Bristol Old Vic in 2010 directed by Tom Morris and was published by Oberon. In 2013 he published Handsome Brute a study of the 1940s murderer Neville Heath.

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