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Usborne World of the Unknown: All About Ghosts : A Celebration

7.45 Tuesday 19 November 2019
£5 / £2 Concessions 
Pre-booked tickets are now closed - please get tickets on the door tonight. Thank you.
The Miller, 96 Snowsfields, London Bridge, London SE1 3SS
Tube and Rail: London Bridge
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Speak to any British fortean, ghost hunter or folklorist of a certain age about the Usborne World of the Unknown: All About Ghosts children’s book and you will get a teary eye, vivid reminiscences and a very specific sense of nostalgia for this illustrated work. The London Fortean Society are excited, tiny spooky twelve-year-olds again to have author Christopher Maynard and publisher Anna Howorth, plus, hopefully, a guest of two,

First published in 1977, this cult classic has been reissued for a new generation of ghost-hunters. This book is for anyone who has shivered at shadowy figures in the dark, heard strange sounds in the night, or felt the presence of a mysterious ‘something’ from the unknown.

Ghost stories are as old as recorded history and exist all over the world. Many of

the different kinds of ghosts that are thought to haunt the Earth and their behaviour are described here. You will meet haunting spirits, screaming skulls, phantom ships, demon dogs, white ladies, gallows ghosts and many more.

This book also explains the techniques and equipment of ghost hunting and tells how lots of ‘ghosts’ have been exposed as fakes or explained away as natural events. Also included are some theories that attempt to explain the possible existence of ghosts.

Do please join us to celebrate. Copies of Usborne World of the Unknown: All About Ghosts will be available to be bought and signed on the night.

7.45 Tuesday 19 November 2019
£5 / £2 Concessions 
Pre-booked tickets are now closed - please get tickets on the door tonight. Thank you.
The Miller, 96 Snowsfields, London Bridge, London SE1 3SS
Tube and Rail: London Bridge
Facebook Page

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