Harry price biography

(Shrewsbury-Salop, England: 17th February 1881 - 29th March 1948).

Famous professional psychic researcher. Magic collector. Presented his fine collection of books on magic and psychic phenomena to the London University Library in 1936.

Wrote several major books on psychic phenomena, including Revelations of a Spirit Medium (1922, as co-editor with Eric J. Dingwall), Short Title Catalogue (1929), Rudi Schneider (1930, 239pp), Leaves from a Psychist's Case-Book (1933), Supplement to Short Title Catalogue (1935), The Haunting of Cashen's Gap (1936, 211pp, with Lambert), Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter (1936), 50 Years of Psychical Research (1939, 383pp), The Most Haunted House in England (1940, 255pp), Search for Truth (1942), Poltergeist over England (1945, 423pp), and The End of Borley Rectory (1946, 358pp).

Exposés of Price's own fraudulent writings on Borley Rectory are Dingwall, Goldney, and Hall, The Haunting of Borley Rectory (1955) and Trevor H. Hall, Search for Harry Price (1978). Bio is Paul Tabori, Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghost-hunter (1950, 316pp); Tabori and Underwood, The Ghosts of Borley (1973, 240pp).

Coauthors: Eric J. Dingwall

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Harry Price - An Introductionby Peter Underwood FRSA 

Life President of the Ghost Club Society - Exclusive to this website

 

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The Borley Rectory Companion

Sixty years after Harry Price’s death, a major new book on the Borley Rectory case has been published. Written by Paul Adams and Eddie Brazil, the creators of this website, together with Peter Underwood, the UK's leading ghost hunter and author of over forty books on the occult and the paranormal, the Borley Rectory Companion is the most comprehensive reference work ever compiled on Price's most famous investigation.  Interwoven between the reports of earthbound spirits, apparitions, poltergeist phenomena, ghost hunting vigils and séances is a human drama almost as remarkable as the paranormal happenings alleged to have occurred at the lonely Essex rectory.

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