Out of this world. Volume 16 – Usado

”An ice-cold supernatural hand clutches at motorist as he drives along a lonely country road… a guest emerges raving mad after a night on a haunted room… a headless American soldier is doomed to spend eternity searching a battlefield for his lost head… a king of France is struck with terror as a spectral huntsman, in full pursuit of a pack of hounds, crosses his path.

Fanciful ghost stories? The stock-in-trade of late-night raconteurs intent on making your hair stand on end?

Maybe, but they are also part of the enduring folklore of ghosts, spectres, and hauntings; a folklore based not just on ancient superstitions but on events so profound, tragic, and overwhelming that they seem to have left a permanent ”imprint” on the places where they happened.

Volume 16 of Out of this world sees the start of an enthralling and thought provoking series on ghosts and hauntings. The classic, unsolved ghost stories are all investigated in detail, the background examined, the eye-witness reports sifted and weighed. But here, too, are lesser-known examples of ghostly apparitions which Legionnaires during World War One; the shrieks of agony which terrified a platoon of French dungeon where political victims had once been tortured; the Confederate soldier coach made of human bones which race along a country lane on its devilish errand” – P. Phillips, Editor