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Plumbing the mysteries of poltergeists

21 March 2020

9:00 AM

21 March 2020

9:00 AM

Blithe Spirits: An Imaginative History of the Poltergeist S.D. Tucker

Amberley, pp.352, 16.99

This is a paranormal book — by which I mean it exists in a truly out of the ordinary netherworld of amiable smut and arch silliness not normally associated with titles reviewed in these pages. But hold on, there is a point — which I’ll come to later.‘Perhaps Wakdjunkaga was really Gef the Talking Mongoose.’

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