Review: Tales of Ghostly Horror: Real-life Encounters with the Supernatural
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2012
I think this was a serious attempt to marry investigation with legend. As such, the author was moderately successful. Unfortunately, the book was 'flat' for me. While I did not expect a series of spine-tingling stories or a paranormal version of CSI, I was expecting something a bit...more. This had a reportorial approach that sucked the life out of the phenomenological experience and rendered any investigative findings quite colorless. There are miles between a dry "just the facts" report and an "OMG!" sensational one, and paranormal research findings should be presented from a position somewhere in between. After all, the aim of research is to explore, explain, and extrapolate, not simply produce data in a vacuum. That being said, there are always things to be learned from any encounter, and this books presents a variety of them.