BORLEY RECTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Adams, Douglas. Dick Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Heinemann, 1987. Pocket Books, 1988. p. 71. ("He flipped through the two books he'd picked up. One of them, an elderly one, was an account of the hauntings of Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England. Its spine was getting raggedy, and the photographic plates were so grey and blurry as to be virtually indistinguishable. A picture he thought must be a very lucky (or faked) shot of a ghostly apparition turned out, when he examined the caption, to be a portrait of the author." Adams studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He died in May, 2001.) **T

Aickman, Robert Fordyce. See Mystery: An Anthology of the Mysterious in Fact and Fiction.

Alexander, Marc. Phantom Britain. Frederick Mueller Ltd., 1975. pp. 205-13. Chapter 17, "Borley Rectory Yet Again." No illustrations. (Chapter title suggests the author discussed Borley in one or both previous titles, Haunted Inns, and/or Haunted Castles. Jacket sketch could be inspired by rectory outline. Coverage of other stories includes several monks, phantom coaches, buildings much like Pentlow, etc. In addition to standard and accurate condensation, includes first published account of Edward Rowling who visited the ruins as a boy. The time period had to be between February 1939 and April 1944. "We were looking through the front door. . . .[when] a brass candlestick came hurtling down the stairs." Rowling refused to go back another time. Author researched subject including a night time visit to the graveyard. "I gained the impression that it must be almost impossible to visit there and not experience something. . . .I must confess to feeling cheated when nothing aberrant occurred." Repeats assumption by Price [MHH, p. 12] that rectory was built, "on the foundations of at least two earlier buildings." Discusses controversy raised by Smiths and the SPR trio, including rebuttal by Hastings. Reviews phenomena reported in The Ghosts of Borley Rectory by Peter Underwood. These include visit of the phantom to Gerald Kelman in July of 1966, the appearance of a shrouded apparition to Croom-Hollingsworth June 20, 1970, and the sound of organ music heard by the latter in 1970.)**T All pages scanned

Allan, Tony. Tales of Real Haunting. London: Usborne, 1997. "A Ghosthunter's toolkit," and "The Most Haunted House in England." pp. 28-9, 36-40. (Colorful children's book with lots of illustrations. Part of the story begins on the cover, and includes many photos, drawings, and a schematic of the rectory. One of the most accurate tellings of the Borley Legend available. Starts with alleged monastery and continues through haunting at the church. One section details "The case against Harry Price." )** Cover scan

Ambrose, Ernest. Melford Memories: recollections of 94 years. Long Melford Historical and Archaeological Society, 1972. ("My study of the organ continued under the expert tuition of Mr. Bernard Hurst (one of five brothers, all organists) until, at the age of 18, I was invited to become organist at the little church at Borley. I used to cycle over every Friday evening for choir practice and again on Sundays for services. If the roads were very bad or too deep in snow, I would walk taking short cuts across fields. I'd always arrange to arrive about half an hour before the service and would often stand on the hill looking down towards Melford. It was interesting to watch the people coming from Rodbridge making their way to the church over the stile, and diagonally across the field and then alongside the hedge. Most especially was it fascinating on dark nights when groups of worshippers carried lanterns and you would see these little lights bobbing along like fire flies as the people made their way to church. It was a very well attended church and we had an enthusiastic choir. In winter we had "evening service" at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I was always invited to stay to lunch at the rectory, and on arrival before morning service was given a glass of beer, which was very welcome after my efforts to get there. The Rev. Harry Bull was rector at that period and I got to know the family well. I began to hear about their ghost which the family spoke about in quite matter of fact terms. The rector's sisters seemed mostly concerned in this apparition and when I asked them about it they told me in quite casual terms what they had seen. They pointed out to me the path and lawn where they had seen the ghost walking, and when I asked what they felt about it, they said "Oh, we are quite used to it. It doesn't bother us at all." They also showed me a bedroom window where it appeared during the last week in July. That made me think it could be due in some way to the special position of the sun at that time. They were all very down to earth women, not given to exaggeration or emotionalism; nor were they inclined to search for the supernatural. But they were very convinced that they had seen an apparition on several occasions, and they just accepted this as a plain fact. They were very practical women, and if, as happened occasionally, I got a puncture in my bike, one of them would mend it for me and enjoy doing it. A young housemaid, who had only been at the rectory a short time and had heard no talk of ghosts, told me she came home one evening and in the semi-darkness saw a person dressed as a nun or nurse standing at the lower garden gate. She approached it and it vanished. She was so terrified she fainted. One summer's evening the Rev. Bull, who also was a pragmatic type of man, told me he was standing in the church talking to a friend (I had just left after the service) when they both distinctly heard knocking outside starting from the south side and continuing the whole way round the church. On investigation they found nothing. I was organist at Borley for 17 years and often left after choir practice on dark nights but I saw nothing at all. I am by no means psychic and if I encounter an unusual situation I always seek, and usually find, a natural explanation. Ghosts and house haunts were, however, often talked of and believed in when I was a boy. People believed explicitly in evil spirits and in apparitions and most certainly in the devil. Children were often threatened with the devil; "You marn't do that do the dev'l get ya." Spirits of good and evil were considered a natural part of everyday life; and heaven and hell were very real places in the minds of ordinary people.") courtesy of Andrew Clarke

Anderson, Jonathan; Woods, Melissa; Paramo Gutierrez, Maria Jesus. "Britain's Most Haunted House?" TARGETS for Bachillerato. Cyprus: Burlington Books, 2002. pp. 80-81. ISBN:9963-46-634-6 Photo of rectory. (Textbook designed to help Israeli students learn English. Three paragraphs and related study questions based primarily on We Faked the Ghosts of Borley by Louis Mayerling. Upon being informed by Vincent O'Neil that this resource was less than reliable, the publisher wrote, "although our Students book has gone to print, we are in the process of writing the Teachers Guide for that book, and we will include informative material . . . . stating that there is a controversy about the Rectory-that there are many different versions, and that some hoaxes have been discovered on that subject. We will also add a part of some of your material." One additional error has also been printed which does not relate to Mayerling. The text says, "Between 1930 and 1935 alone, BBC investigators noted more than 2,000 supernatural occurrences at Borley." Actually, this observation was made by Harry Price in The Most Haunted House in England after reading the journals of the incumbent rector during those years, Rev. Lionel Foyster.) **T scan of pages sent by publisher

Armstrong, Warren. The Authentic Shudder. New York: John Day Company, Inc., 19?? New York: Popular Library, 1967. pp. 78-86. ("I was born in a haunted cottage [in the Chiltern Hills at Caversham Heights, Oxfordshire]. It was not [our ghost] who forced us to look for another house; we were driven to it through sheer despair over the endless stream of sightseers who plagued us every summer weekend and holiday." Lengthy discussion begins with recollection that "I visited the site of the rectory in the early summer of 1949, nearly two years after it had been burned down." The fire was in 1939, it was razed in 1944. Indicates the Bulls had a "large staff of servants," but the record does not indicate there was a large number at any one time. Narrative hops back and forth during the time-line, buts gets most of the legend told. Indicates the nun told Price and Sidney Glanville during a seance "that her grave was on the southwest side of the house under a fir tree. They found the skeleton under a stone inscribed with a B." Sidney Glanville was not present at the first sessions, nor was Price. Regarding the fir tree and stone, Price said, " I need hardly warn the reader not to take this seance 'information' too seriously." Glanville and his son did dig in what was supposed to be a cat's cemetery and, "after considerable digging they turned up a lot of large bones. . .. [that] appeared to have once belonged to the local butcher, but one or two of them they could not identify." MHH, 199. Price exclaimed, "The bones dug up by Mr. Glanville certainly belonged to no nun!" MHH, 163. Whilst many errors in transcribing the Borley Legend crop up from various re-tellings from many sources, it would appear Armstrong had the original book [MHH] available to him, yet made a key error. As with other mistakes, this one may have been perpetuated by subsequent writers dealing only with Armstrong's version. Most of this version is more accurate, however. Accurately relates much from the Foyster tenancy, but then indicates, "In desperation, the Foysters left the house that April and Borley was sold." The Foysters did not leave because of the haunting, but because of Lionel's ill health. "Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Foyster felt frightened during the whole period of their residence at the Rectory." MHH, 84. They left in October of 1935, not April of 1931. The rectory could not be sold until Gregson bought it in 1938. Quotes from Unbidden Guests by William O. Stevens wherein Sunex Amures predicts the fire. This prophecy is also published by Price. "These hauntings at Borley Rectory have been vouched for by at least a hundred witnesses and even Harry Price, a most hardened scientist, agreed that this house was definitely haunted.") **T Popular Library All pages scanned

Ashley, Leonard. The Complete Book of Ghosts and Poltergeists. New York: Barricade Books, 2000. p. 254. (In the one paragraph devoted to Harry Price, Ashley writes, ". . . . he perhaps falsified some of the evidence of the Borley Rectory phenomena.")

Babbs, Edward. Mathias, Claudine. Borley Rectory, the Final Analysis. Pentlow: Six Martlets Publishing, 2003. Cover illustration by Nick Fenwick. (Story of Borley told by a local resident and widow of former rector. To include new photographs. Promotion in Subury newspaper includes these observations: "[the book] includes first-hand accounts by people who remember the rectory in the 1930s including some who worked there. . . . .Four ley lines cross at Borley and possibly this could account for some of the poltergeist-type activity. . . . He only found one person who could remember the exact spot where what could be the final remains of Marie Lairre now lie.") **T autographed by of all
Outline given to Vincent O'Neil prior to publication.
Review by Andrew Clarke.
Publisher's reply to Clarke.
Clarke's response.
Christian Paranormal review.

Baines, Mrs. Cecil.C. Unpublished Approximately 46 pages. (In 1950, along with Sidney Glaville and Peter Underwood, she hoped to publish "a third volume of the Borley Saga...before long," as a follow-up to the Harry Price books, and including the material he intended to use. Mrs. Baines did a great deal of research, and had access to the diary of Caroline Bull, among other documents. From her notes we learn such things as, "the gift of the living [at Borley] was in the ownership of the Reverend Edward Bull of Pentlow. [Caroline] always known in the family as Dodie - and Harry were very close to each other all their lives long. Henry Bull believed that in medieval times there had been a monastery at Borley, that a tragedy involving a runaway monk and nun ending in murder had ensued, complicated by a phantom and anachronistic coach. In Victorian times, ghost stories were rife. Neither Henry Bull nor his son Harry in particular were the type of men to delve into local history, but had they done so, they would have discovered that there never had been a monastic establishment nor convent at Borley. There is not a shred of evidence to suggest that Henry Bull regarded his clerical status as a vocation, merely a means of livelihood traditional in his family, at which he was professionally extremely competent. Indeed, competence was the hallmark of himself, his wife, and all but two of his children; Harry - whose eccentricities were made manifest at an early age - and one of the younger daughters who as an adult had the reputation of being not quite normal - this being attributed in the family to her fear of the paranormal happenings in and outside the rectory. For this reason they were never discussed or alluded to in her presence. Nor is there any reason for supposing they were a frequent topic of conversation among the Bulls, but accepted among them and their intimate friends as curious oddities. [Dodie's diary] is the earliest record of a seance being held at the rectory, although one gets the impression it had been preceded by others. In those early days Harry Bull's attitude to the paranormal was ambivalent. One morning in August 1886 [Harry and P. Shaw Jeffreys] went to Pentlow Rectory to witness some poltergeist phenomena of which the focus was a new housemaid. This was the first and last incident of its kind as far as is known in the Felix Bull's house. Periodically [bedroom 7] lit up. No car could possibly have been positioned to produce this effect since it would have meant breaking down trees and shrubs; the distant lights from Sudbury may have flickered but would have hardly at that distance shone with brilliance; and if reflections of the lights from passing trains were the cause. . . . this light would have been seen regularly for a specific duration. This was not the case. Harry so mourned [his pet cat Fluffy] that he had it skinned and on occasions would wear the fur draped around his shoulders. Not long after WW II [the three year old daughter of Mr. Frank Foster] stroked an invisible cat for a minute or two.") ** photocopies of all chapters except Number One, which has been lost

Baird, A.T. editor. One Hundred Cases for Survival After Death. Philadelphia: Ruttle, Shaw and Wetherill, Inc. 1944. pp. 45-49. (Fairly concise synopsis from 1863 through late 40s.)**T scans

Banks, Ivan. The Enigma of Borley Rectory. London: Foulsham, 1995. Paperback, 224 pages. (Banks told this author, "I've always thought of my contribution to the Borley story as being that of a layman rather than as any sort of expert on psychic research. I have most of the books on Borley, including the reproduction of Price's famous original." Over 40 photographs and illustrations. Author declares neutrality in his introduction, but seems to support at least some of the phenomena by the end. Not all researchers agree with all of his conclusions. Refuses to accept Marianne "as the villainess in the Borley story." Excellent bibliography. Diagrams of the various elevations not found elsewhere. Review. Reissued December 2001 under same ISBN. Cover identical except for price increase - £9.99 to £12.99, and $16.95 to $25.95. Placement of photographs on pages 122 and 142 corrected. The corrected reference to the actual name of Richard Lee-van den Daele has been made in five instances. The only other copy changes are regarding geography on page 6. "Behind Borley Place lies another cottage and a large pond, a couple of modern bungalows and then about a half mile of open fields, a turn off to Ballingdon and a farm road to Brook Hall." is corrected to read, "In front of Borley Place is Borley Place cottage. A large pond is further west. There's a couple of big modern bungalows and then about a half mile of open fields. . . (etc.)" Later on the same page, the publishers have ommitted the name of the current residents of Borley Cottage.)**/**T both editions

Bardens, Dennis. Ghosts and Hauntings. London: Zeus Press, 1965. New York: Taplinger, 1968. London: Senate, 1997. pp. 107-12. ("I met Price quite often in those days and never doubted his integrity. . ." Includes the basics plus three photos - before and after the fire, plus floating brick. "The supposition that Borley . . . was the scene of some great human tragedy which had left an indelible imprint is . . . overwhelming.")**T not scanned to protect book

Barlow, Steve - Skidmore, Steve. The Unsolved Mysteries Project Book. London: Brockhampton Press, 1993. p. 5 (not p. 11 as indexed). Photo of rectory. (Children's book with snippets of mysteries. "From 1863 to 1939, more than 200[?] sightings were reported. The most sighted Borley ghost was a nun called Marie Lairre who was murdered in 1667. When the house burned down in 1939, onlookers saw strange figures in the flames, inlcuding one in the form of a nun. Four years later, the bones of a young woman were found beneath the cellar floor." Only portions of a skull were found.) **T Scan

Bayless, Raymond. Apparitions and Survival of Death. Secaucus: University Books, 1973. New York: Citadel, 1973. pp. 16, 116, 117-121, 123. (While describing a case in India, Bayless says, "This characteristic parallels the disappearance of religious articles in the Borley Rectory haunting detailed by Harry Price in The Most Haunted House in England." Describes attacks on Price then argues for him. Refers to Hall's Critical Survey of the Evidence, and an analysis of that book by Robert Hastings in Proceedings. Casts doubts on Dingwall, Hall and Goldney's conclusions. Due to the Hastings reply, "the haunting must again be admitted to the ranks of respectable cases." Does not dwell on Borley history. ". . . . in Chapter XXXI of The Most Haunted House in England, Price wrote that persisting portions of the minds of previous occupants of Borley Rectory were responsible for the phenomena experienced. He noted that the reader could, if he wished, title such remnants, spirits." Slanted to proving life after death from many sources, including the S.P.R.)**/**T both versions scans

Becker, Carl. Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death. New York: State University of New York Press, 1993. p. 43. (Erroneously confuses Harry Price with Professor H(enry) H(abberly) Price, president of the SPR 1939-41. "Professor H.H. Price, who personally inspected the Borley Rectory and a number of other 'haunted houses' in England, also concluded there was a significant difference between hauntings of place and other apparitions. The former seemed to exhibit no consciousness; the later often expressed conscious purpose." Becker does not use a book by Price as his source, but rather 100 Cases for Survival after Death by A.T. Baird, which has a synopsis of Price at Borley.) **T

Bennett, Gillian. Traditions of Belief. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999. p. 37. ("More recently there have been outbreaks at Borley Rectory [of dubious authenticity according to psychical researchers Dingwall, Goldney and Hall] and at Runcorn.")

Berlitz, Charles. World of Strange Phenomena. "The Nun's Ghost at Borley." New York: Wynwood Press, 1988. pp. 188-189. (Brief synopsis states, "...critics said that Price fabricated some of the phenomena and exaggerated others." Instead of having the Price observers investigate at different times throughout his one year lease, author suggests, "Price took forty of them to the house," at one time. Price did not "move in.")**T Scanned

Bevan, Finn. True Mystery Stories. New York: Sterling Publishing, 1997. Chapter 7, "Ghosts and Hauntings" pp. 272-79. Great Britain: Robinson Publishing, 1997. (Incorrectly quotes one of the wall writings as "Marianne. Get Help. To die unrepentant bothers me." Mistakenly states that Price "claimed to have seen some 200 different ghosts at the rectory." Incorrectly says the ruins were destroyed in 1943, instead of 1944. Also errs in stating the Bull family already had 14 children when they moved in. Actually, several of the children were born during the initial tenancy.)**T not scanned to protect book.

Bland, Celia. Unsolved Mysteries. Chicago: Kidsbooks, Inc. 1998. p.26. Part of "Eyes on Adventure" children's series. Photo of rectory. (Four sentences, including innacurate statement, "When the rectory burned in 1939, a hidden skeleton was found." Only one skull fragment and a piece of a jaw bone were found 17 August 1943.) **T

Bloom, Clive. Creepers: British Horror & Fantasy in the Twentieth Century. Pluto Press, London, ISBN 0 7453 0664. Chapter 6, by Clive Bloom, is titled "Harry Price and the Haunted Rectory." ("It is a study from a literary viewpoint - Bloom is/was Principal Lecturer in English at Middlesex University. He leans quite heavily on Hall's book on Price, but comes up with some interesting analysis which perhaps sheds some light on Price's motives, IF he faked the whole lot. definitely worth reading." - Joseph Boughey)

Blundell, Nigel. The World's Greatest Mysteries. London: Octopus Books Limited, 1980. pp. 159-60. New York: Exeter Books, 1984. pp. 159-60. New York: Berkley, 1988. pp. 168-71. (Darkened photo from southeast gate. Condensation is a little too brief, for one sentence reads, "Twenty people saw a nun on the lawn," as if they all saw her at one time. Another error is in claiming, "after [Marianne] was attacked by an invisible assailant, the family moved out." Errs by using plural instead of singular for when "reporters kept vigil." Incorrectly states Price "moved in." Mistakenly adds portions of a skeleton to the skull fragments found.)**T scanned

The World's Strangest Mysteries. New York: Gallery Books, 1987. An imprint of W.H. Smith Publishers. First published in 1987 by Octopus Books, Limited, London. pp. 329-30, 359- 61. (No author or editorial credits given, but one article is identical to Blundell book, The World's Greatest Mysteries. Borley is discussed in two separate chapters dealing with "Ghost and Ghouls," and "Favourite Haunts." The chapter on ghosts is identical to that found in The World's Greatest Mysteries. New material is added in the chapter dealing with hauntings under the heading, "Riddle of the Rectory." Mostly accurate except for the occasional miscue such as "[the Foysters] fled for a more peaceful home." They left after five years due to Lionel's continued ill health. "Fragments of a skeleton" are incorrectly added to that of the skull.) **T Scan of added material in "Favourite Haunts."

Boar, Roger; Blundell, Nigel. Mystery, Intrigue and the Supernatural. New York: Dorset Press, 1991. pp. 329-330. (An exact duplicate of both chapters in The World's Strangest Mysteries, down to the exact page numbers, but with author credits. Of the rectory it concludes, "the fact remains that things have happened at Borley which no one can explain.")**T same scan as original Octopus publication, and of added chapter.

Boar, Roger; Blundell, Nigel. The World's Greatest Ghosts. London: Octopus Books Ltd., 1983 hardback. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1988 paperback. pp. 57-60. London: Hamlyn, 1991 paperback, pp.54-56. (Hamlyn has a different cover. Both reprint "Riddle of the Rectory" with one photo of digging.)**Berkley **Hamlyn

Bord, Janet. Ghosts.

Bord, Janet and Colin. Atlas of Magical Britain. Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1990. Secaucus: Chartwell, 1990. pp. 62-3. (Guidebook. Large photo of rectory with Harry and two of his sisters on lawn. Does not refer to Harry Price or his books, but to The Ghosts of Borley by Underwood and Tabori. Of two paragraphs, the second deals with the church. "A phantom girl with a nun's veil was seen in the churchyard by a visiting clergyman in 1949.") **T Chartwell. Not scanned to protect book.

Bord, Janet and Colin. Modern Mysteries of Britain. London: Guild Publishing, 1987. p. 275. (Gazetteer of strange events has a paragraph to sum up the haunting and then adds the experience of Dr. Margaret Abernathy in August of 1949.)**T

Bord, Janet and Colin. The World of the Unexplained. London: Blanford (Cassell), 1998. pp. 72-3. Photos before and after the fire, wall writing. (One of the more accurate abridgements. Two full pages. Correctly states Price "kept the house for a year," instead of assuming he actually lived there.) **T scanned

Bradbury, Will, editor. "Harry Price's Great Ghost Hunt." Into The Unknown. Pleasantville: Reader's Digest Association, Inc. 1981. pp. 178-179. Photos of burned out rectory, Price with a telescope, and wall writings.(Claims Price "...never fully proved that there were ghosts there." My first introduction to a Borley article.)**T scanned

Braddock, Joseph. Haunted Houses. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1956. pp. 82, 84-5, 204-5. Unique illustration by Felix Kelly of nun and burned out rectory at start of Chapter Twelve. Uses research from many well-known writers investigating a variety of cases.("The late Harry Price has neatly said that while a ghost haunts, a plotergeist infests. Certainly polyergeists seem to like company, while the more normal ghosts generally prefer solitude. And whereas most ghosts seek darkness or the half-light (there are exceptions, the apparently solid, three-dimensional, objective ghost of the Nun at Borley Rectory it is claimed was seen by the four Bull sisters when they were together in the sunlight), a poltergeist will cheerfully continue its harmful persecutions undiminished in broad daylight." Recounts visit of Mr. H.F. Russell who was "dashed to the ground" during a visit November 12, 1941 as evidence "poltergeists are not always so harmless." Tells of Marianne's black eye and the tools that flew. Takes positive view towards hauntings. Of Borley, he says, "there are those who maintain that since the Rectory was burned down in 1939, the hauntings have gone on." In Chapter Twelve - "Photographs of ghosts" - cites, but does not publish, photo Thurston Hopkins took about 1955 showing "dark mass" by the gatepost. In effect, he uses this photograph to rebut attack by Hall, et. al.) **T Scan, plus Hopkins photo.

Braddock, Joseph. Haunted Houses of Great Britain. New York: Dorset Press, 1991. pp. 82, 84-5, 204-5. (Reprint of Haunted Houses.)**T

Brandon, Ruth. Out of Body, Out of Mind. MacMillan, 1987. p. 182. St. Martins. 1987. Critic's Choice. 1989. (Fiction. Mentions Borley in passing during description of the Harry Price Library housed at London University. "Who has not heard of the Borley Rectory Ghost, of which he was the chief publicist and probably begetter? This bizarre episode was entirely characteristic of a career in which perverse motivation was allied to a genius for publicity; a combination which, in the end, did not endear Harry Price to the doyens of psi.")**photocopy

Brett, Bernard. A Young Person's Guide to Ghosts. 1981. (Later published as Ghosts. See above.)

Brittle, Gerald. THE DEMONOLOGIST Prentice Hall, 1980. New York: Berkley, 1981. pp. 10, 31. Photo section includes one of Liston churchyard. (The true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, who investigated Amityville. "Not far from [Raynham Hall] is Borley, the most haunted area in England. Both Lorraine and I have seen the Borley Nun walking along the road, and this time we'll try to photograph her too." "There are places in the world that are really haunted, and many of those places are in England. Borley Rectory, for example, is a virtual doorway to the supernatural, as it has been for hundreds of years. One need only read the late Harry Price's books, such as Poltergeist Over England, to find that out.") **T Berkley paperback - very rare.

Brookesmith, Peter, editor. Fact or Fantasy - compelling collection of awe-inspiring tales. Caxton. Brian Innes, editorial director. Orbis Publishing, 1984, Macdonald & Co. Ltd., 1990. pp. 102, 105-20, 142, 177-78. Rare photos include unique view of ruins. ("Harry Price investigated the [Berkeley Square] mystery in the 1920s, two decades before his mishandling - or worse - of the Borley Rectory case made him an object of suspicion in psychical research circles." p. 142. Material in this book previously appeared in the partwork The Unexplained. One of several bound volumes that resulted from the weekly publication, this version of the book has over 475 pages, while the series had over 3100 pages when it first appeared from 1980 to 1983. It includes all the Borley material - with the notable exception of the letters to the editor - found in the 26 volume Mysteries of Mind Space and Time (which has the letters), Great Hauntings, and Marvels and Mysteries. Four chapters on Borley by Frank Smyth - A Haunting Tale, The Tension Mounts, Borley in Ruins? and No End to Borley. One chapter on Borley by Guy Lyon Playfair - Ghosts True and False.) **T all articles scanned

Brookesmith, Peter, editor. Great Hauntings. London: Orbis Publishing Ltd. 1984; Macdonald & Co. Ltd. under the Black Cat imprint, 1988. Previously published as a weekly periodical, The Unexplained, 1980-83. Black Cat edition; "Borley Rectory," by Frank Smyth, pp. 9-24, "Ghosts True and False," by Guy Lyon Playfair, pp. 81-82. (Exquisite photographs and outstanding synopsis makes this the best condensation I have seen, although mostly skeptical. Most of the photos are in full color. The articles include names of modern researchers and refers to their efforts. Smyth says in the introduction, "I am convinced that the famous haunting at Borley Rectory, Suffolk (sic), was [wishful thinking]." Calls Price, "a confirmed liar and publicity seeker," as well as "a fraud." Turns attention from the rectory to the church, detailing visits by researchers in the 60's and 70's. Quotes report from researcher Geoffrey Croom-Hollingsworth as saying, "I don't give a damn if Price invented things or not. The basic question is - is the place haunted? And you can take it from me it is. [Roy] Potter and I saw the nun quite clearly for a period of about 12 minutes. . ." Quotes investigator Ronald Russell's report, "We have recorded hundreds of extraordinary noises, footsteps, crashes and so on. On one occasion we located a centre of disturbance near the Waldegrave tomb; it was tangible, like a swirling column of energy. When you passed your hand through it you felt a sort of crackle, like static electricity." The Borley material also shows up in Marvels and Mysteries with no editor nor author credits, and in Mysteries of Space and Time which adds some fascinating letters.)**T articles scanned

Brookesmith, Peter. Editor. Ghosts. London: Orbis Publishing Ltd., 1989. Black Cat, 1992. pp. 87, 91-106, 44-45, 201. (Tells unique story of how, "In 1977, the Enfield Psychical Research Group adopted [the Bull Inn] as their base when they began making tape recordings in Borley Church." After a cocktail shaker, "whizzed off the shelf and clattered to the floor," one of the group said, "Perhaps Harry resents his exposure as a fraud, and is making his point.")

Brooks, John. Die Geister GrossBritainniens. Guidebook to haunted houses in England. (One paragraph.)

Brooks, John A. Britain's Haunted Heritage. 1991. (One paragraph.)

Brooks, John. The Good Ghost Guide. Norwich: Jarrold, 1994. p. 86. ("The rectory was reputed to be the most haunted house in England before it was demolished in 1944 -it had at least 12 ghosts. Psychic attention has been transferred to Borley church, which has also acquired the reputation of being haunted. Ghostly music has been heard and a phantom nun seen in the churchyard." No list or source given for 12 ghosts. If all parts of the legend are taken in to account, there are more than 18 candidates for the ghosts.)**T

Buckley, R.F. No Ghosts at Borley? Unpublished. (Referred to by Underwood in The Ghosts of Borley. Discusses Marianne's health, since she appeared robust but may have feigned illness to pull pranks.)

Bull, Caroline Sarah Elizabeth. Diary. 1885. (Diary as written in an exercise book. Found "by a sheer fluke" by Geoffrey Croom-Hollingswood and Roy Potter, as reported by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny in Ghost Stations III. In discussing the contents, Halpenny said Harry knew about the nun, and erected the summer house to watch her. This same book indicated the diary mentions many "psychic happenings," mostly moving chairs. However, in the extensive extracts I have been able to obtain, paranormal activities are remarkable by their absence. I can find only one such mention. Instead, she talks mostly about dances and gentlemen callers. At 21 years of age, she is mostly worried about her looks and her social life. While written five years before the appearance of the nun to the four sisters, if anything else out of the ordinary would have happened, it seems odd she wouldn't have mentioned them. Instead, she writes of "the same humdrum. . . . the same tennis parties and cricket matches in the summer, the same dances last winter." Shows how walking to Sudbury, Long Melford, and Pentlow was quite common. Caroline and Freda both vied for the attention of house guest Percy Shaw Jeffreys. It may be assumed that paranormal activity was often discussed, however, for her entry of October 8 casually states, "It rained. I tried chair moving in the evening and made a chair walk all over the room and answer questions, some of which were quite right. S. asked it the age of a friend of Marie and it said 25, and was quite right. It was great fun and I seem to have a great deal of electricity in me as I can make it walk quite fast. Father came home by the 6:10 from Bury.") ** excerpts

Bull, Henry Dawson Ellis. Diary. (". . . from his ordination on 30th May 1858. The diary covers his incumbency of the post of deacon of Holy Trinity, Ely. It also contains occasional references to Pentlow, where his father [the Reverend Edward Bull] was the vicar and frequent references to visits to London, Cambridge and Newmarket and short holiday in Dieppe in Agust 1859. The writer reflects on his career following his appointment as a minister, on 16 November 1859; entries between 25 November 1859 and 22 March 1860 relate to period in Hastings, East Sussex [as curate?]; mentions an inquest "on the body of male child found in John Ewers pond" 22 June 1860. Henry Dawson Ellis Bull later held the living of Borley for the period 1862-1892 [J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses])

Bull, J.M. A Short History of Borley and Liston Churches. 1937. (Unclear if this discussed haunting.)

Burks, Eddie and Cribbs, Gillian. Ghosthunter. London: Headline, 1995. p. 353-4. (One sentence. "Borley rectory in Essex held the title [as Britan's most haunted house] for nearly 20 years, largely because of the work of Harry Price, a renowned psychic investigator; after his death in 1948, his research was descredited and Borley Rectory lost its place at the top of the league table.")**

Burns, Marjorie, editor. Weird Stories From Real Life. New York: Scholastic, 1977. "The Most Haunted House in England" by Marie Norel. pp. 37-42. "Poltergeists," by Burns, p. 71. (One sentence in the Burns chapter: "One resident of Borley Rectory, a woman who moved in shortly after Harry Price's 1929 investigation, was nearly smothered by the mattress on her bed." The word "smothered" is not in the Price account. In the Norel chapter, the name of the place and the investigator are correct - all other names are pseudonyms. Some of the details get twisted in the telling, and most get telescoped, as with many other condensations. The names and the story are taken from Price's 1936 book, Confessions of a Ghost Hunter, when they might just as well have been taken from his two later books devoted to the subject. The book also includes extracts from "Confessions" in a separate chapter. Although written in about 1977, it leads readers astray by indicating "if the ruins of Borley Rectory are inhabited, it is entirely by ghosts." The ruins were razed in 1944.) **T not scanned to protect book

Cannell, J.C. When Fleet Street Calls. Jarrolds, 1932. Chapter VI, "The Haunted Rectory." pp. 158-174. (Marianne and Lionel are referred to as "Mr. and Mrs. R." She was "not much more than 30," and he was "a man of seventy-one." One photo of the entrance and road to the rectory.)

Canning, John, editor. 50 Great Ghost Stories. New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1971. "The Mystery of Borley," by Frank Usher. pp. 452-461. Uncredited etching good, but inaccurate. (Excellent synopsis, if short of details on Foysters. Indicates there were not enough ghosts to write about in 1929, "so others had to be invented." Reports Henry took pot shots at birds with a shotgun on Sunday after church. Says the Bulls were not obsessed with ghosts, but Henry did build the summer house to watch for the nun. Includes listing of 1886 events - "stones thrown about, visitor's boots being found unaccountably on top of the wardrobes, tooth glasses sailing across the room." Also observes the poltergeists were "active at Borley when Price was a mere five years old and [he] could hardly have been held responsible for them." Indicates the skull found by Smiths was buried in the churchyard, but later dug up and replaced in the library to quiet the antics of the ghosts. There is no record of it being unburied. Concludes, "there is little doubt Price faked some of the Borley phenomena. . ." )**T Scans

Canning, John. editor. Great Unsolved Mysteries. London: Chartwelll Books, 1984. "The Ghosts of Borley" by Michael Hardwick," pp. 184-192. Unidentified Thurston Hopkins "gate" photo, p. ii. Ruins photo, p. 236. Several other photos in article, including view of the front of the rectory taken from a slightly different angle than the one in End of Borley Rectory. (Probably the basis for the audio dramatization, "The Hauntings at Borley Rectory," this condensation features a few twists and exaggerations not commonly printed, included a quotation from an exorcism. Foyster did not include any such excerpt in his writings. It also states "There was enough without [an appearance by the nun] to keep Mr. Foyster at his diary until. . . .an arthritic hand, combined with the sheer amount of repetitious material, caused him to give it up." In fact, Lionel continued to write long after leaving Borley. Does not mention the attacks on Price or Marianne. Includes photo of floating brick, and the "family" with Harry Price.)**T Not scanned to protect book.

Carlson, H.G. Mysteries of the Unexplained. Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc. 1994. p. 58. Photos of rectory and Price. (In a shortened version of the Borley haunting it relates that Marianne told investigators, "her husband dreamed up many of the so called hauntings in the hope of selling his story.")**T

Carrington, Hereward. Essays in the Occult. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1946. p. 20 ("One of the most recent and striking of such [poltergeist] accounts is that by Harry Price, in his book The Most Haunted House in England, in which the testimony of more than one-hundred first-hand witnesses is summarized." A footnote is added to the 1958 edition, "Since the above was written, the first-hand testimony of more than 50 additional witnesses has been secured.") **T

Carrington, Hereward; Fodor, Nandor. Haunted People. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co. 1951. p.73. New York: Signet, 1968. p. 61. ("More than 200 firsthand witnesses, many of them scientific men. Every type of poltergeist manifestation. Never explained." In addition to the brief sentence on Borley, Carrington chronicles historical poltergeist phenomenon starting in 355 A.D. at Bingen-am-Rhein, Germany. This first reported case included stone throwing, people being pulled out of bed, rappings and blows. Carrington zeroed in on the throwing of objects and introduced the fascinating observation that "the objects seem to take a curved path - they do not move in straight lines as they would if normally propelled - and land in a part of the room they could not possibly have reached had they been thrown by some person standing in a particular position." Carrington also discovered in the great number of cases he investigated, "that only very rarely have injuries been inflicted." Objects that did strike, did so "very lightly - though the object seemed to be traveling through the air with considerable speed." He also noted that, "By a curious irony of fate, a scrutiny of these historic cases reveals the fact that an unduly large percentage of them have occurred in parsonages!")** Signet

Cartwright, Mark. Gathering "knowledge concerning Mrs. Foyster."

Cassidy, Raymond. A Short History of Copped Hall. p. 213. (One paragraph about Waldegrave.) ** photocopy

Cave, Janet. Foreman, Laura. Hicks, Jim. Hauntings. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1989, 1991. Reprint, Barnes &Noble, 1997. One book in the "Mysteries of the Unknown" series. "England's Most Haunted House," pp. 65-69. Picture of Marianne and Lionel, with children Adelaide and Francois. Photo of envelope with wall writing excerpt, "Marianne," then her reply, "What do you want?" and the answer, "Rest." No credit given for origin of this photo. Also photos of rectory with sisters on the lawn, summer house, a skull, after the fire, and burial at liston. ("The Reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull, who became pastor of Borley Church in 1862, was untroubled by the ghost stories told about his parish and did not hesitate to build his new house on the very site most likely to be haunted by the village's restless spirits. Local legend had it that Borley Rectory was constructed atop the ruined foundations of two much-older structues, the manor house of the noble Waldegrave family and an ancient monastery." Original records by Harry Price and Rev. Henning do not indicate Bull built on a known haunted site.)**/**T Not scanned to presere book

Cavendish, Richard, editor. Encyclopedia of the Unexplained. New York: McGraw Hill, 1974. p. 205 (Only gives titles of Price's two books on Borley in a very brief bio. Facing page has a picture of him crawling through the tunnel. Facing page also has some of the words to the Roman Catholic exorcism text, Rituale Romanum. "I exorcise thee, most unclean spirit, every incursion of the enemy, every specter, every legion, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; be thou rooted out and put to flight from this creature of God. He commands thee, who has bid thee be cast down from the highest heavens into the depths of the earth. He commands thee, who rules the sea, the wind and the tempests. Hear, therefore, and fear, Satan, injurer of the faith, enemy of the human race, procurer of death, destroyer of life, perverter of justice, root of evils, formentor of vices, seducer of men, betrayer of nations, inciter of envy, fount of greed, cause of discord, instigator of griefs. . . . I adjure thee, thou old serpent, by the Judge of the living and the dead, by thy maker, by the maker of the world, by him who hath power to send thee to hell, that from this servant of God, who returns to the bosom of the Church, with thy fear and torment of the terror thou swiftly depart....") ** photocopy

Cavendish, Richard. The World of Ghosts and the Supernatural. New York: Facts of File, 1994. pp. 22-3. (In discussing Price, has photograph of him in his lab, a photo of the rectory, and one of the wall writings. "Price was in little doubt that Marianne was secretly responsible for much of this." Telescopes skull found by Smith into the skull fragment found by Price, so that 1943 discovery in cellar incorrectly becomes "the skull and jawbone of a woman." Balance of article historically accurate. Concludes, "A review of the Borley material convicted him of being careless, but found no proof of fraud.") **T Not scanned to protect book.

Chambers, Paul. Paranormal People: the famous, the infamous, and the supernatural. Blanford, 1998. Sterling Publishing, 1998. Chapter on "Harry Price, Ghost-hunter." pp. 215-19. Photo of Price on cover. (Brief recap of Price's involvement. The entire chapter tries to decide if Price was legitimate or a charlatan. In passing, it mentions that, "It seems Marianne may have been the focus of much of the activity" at Borley. It was after his death "that the real slur against his character started," with the publication of The Haunting of Borley Rectory. The author does not mention the rebuttal by Hastings. "The final blow to his reputation came with the well-researched biography In Search of Harry Price written in 1978 by Trevor Hall." After a very brief biography, Chambers concludes, "Perhaps his greatest contribution was the accessibility he brought to paranormal research.") **T Not scanned.

Clarke, Andrew. The Bones of Borley. Foxearth: Foxearth and District Historical Society, 2006. (Unread. Not sought for. His collecting material from my website without proper accreditation pushed me over the edge when deciding to close the web site. Clarke is mentioned first in the acknowledgments of Harry Price: Psychic Detective by Richard Morris. Indeed, material stolen by Clarke from my web site is accredited TO Clarke, as if it was his. e.g. Note 15 of Chapter 10, "Marianne suffered a black eye through her lover lunging a throw at her rather than anything supernatural hitting her. See Clarke, Bones of Borley." e.g. A verbatim theft on page 162 in the same chapter deals with my mother's description of Harry Price, "When I was introduced to him in Borley Rectory, he gave me the creeps. He had pointed ears, a balding head with high forehead, and eyes that were startling. They were not polite eyes." Lifted from Chapter Seven of The Most Haunted Woman in England by Vincent O'Neil: "Marianne's unpublished autobiographical outline continued." I have no one to blame but myself for these thefts, as I made this material available to the world, albeit without a hint that such things would result.)

Claybourne, Anna. The Usborne Book of Ghosts and Hauntings. London: Usborne, 1999. Tulsa: EDC Publishing, 2000. pp. 12-15, 51. Photo of rectory from the gate and from the lawn, plus stylized pictures of keys, wall writings, Price, map, etc. Top left building on the map is the church, below that is Borley Place. The land under the nail is still farmland. (Oversized paperback. ". . . . could it all have been a cunning hoax?" Onus placed on Price as hoaxer "so he could gain fame and fortune." Marianne is inaccurately dragged out of bed, instead of being tipped over. Mistakenly credits Marianne with identifying source of writings as a nun. Incorrectly states two Bull sisters were returning from a party at night, when the original version states there were three sisters, and "It was quite light, as the sun had not set." Similar mistakes throughout in effort to simplify legend for juvenile audience. Flashy presentation.) **T

Cohen, Daniel. Encyclopedia of Ghosts. New York: Avon Books, 1991. pp. 68-72. New York: Dorset Press, 1989. pp. 82-7. Photo after the fire, showing floating brick. (Incorrectly states Price rented Borely so he could "live and work in a real haunted house. . . .[he] brought down a whole team of volunteer investigators. . ."] Price never lived in the rectory, and the observers were never present for extended periods or in groups of more than few at a time. Brings up SPR trio's attack without mentioning the Hastings rebuttal. "Whether [Marianne caused the disturbances] unconsciously or by trickery is unknown." )**/**T/T Not scanned.

Cohen, Daniel. Price and his Spirit Child Rosalie. Regency, 1965. p. 18, 87, 113.

Cohen, Daniel. Screaming Skulls. New York: Avon Books, 1996. pp. 87-9. (Succinct review along with 100 other ghost stories. No other source - including Price - reports, "At the time of [Harry's] death, mothballs were said to have been found all over the room." Also has one chapter on Rosalie, and one on Price appearing to a man in Sweden after his death.)**T

Cohen, Daniel. Young Ghosts. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 1995. pp. 45, 47, 51. One photo not published elsewhere of students visiting site. ("There is no place for a discussion of Borley Rectory here," but since the author devotes much space to Harry Price, the subject does come up. There is a chapter on Rosalie where he first mentions Borley because, "the details were so sensational the Borley case soon eclipsed Rosalie and everything else in Harry Price's long career." Mentions the Hall/Dingwall/Goldney attack which found Price's Borley work "full of contradictions and misrepresentations of fact." As with so many other authors, he does not mention the Hastings rebuttal. Aimed at children.) **T

Collins, Rex. Editor. Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories. Wordsworth Classics, 1996. (Briefly mentions the Borley nun in the Introduction as a "real" ghost. Collection of mostly classic fiction) **T

Colombo, John Robert. Editor. Conjuring Up the Owens. Toronto: Colombo and Company, 1999. "Reminiscences" at the beginning are from "friends and colleagues" throughout the world. Many are famous para-psychologists. Entry from Vincent O'Neil scanned. pp. 9-11. **T

Colombo, John Robert. Mysterious Canada. Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1988. pp. 22-23. Toronto: Colombo and Company, 1998. (After discussing Amherst at length, says, "history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Assumes Lionel "transported across the Atlantic the effects that were reported from the Cox Family Cottage and said they had occurred at Borley." Then, "what had worked for Hubbell at Amherst worked even better for Price at Borley." Movement of Marianne "with child" is reported, but location listed as Philadelphia, not North Dakota/Wisconsin. Biased toward fakery. ) **T Scanned

Cooper, Ashley. Heart of our History. Bulmer Historical Society, 1994. "500 years of village history along the Suffolk-Essex border." (Gives a very intimate portrayal of day-to-day life in the Borley neighborhood, told in the words of the people who lived it. No word of the haunting.) ** excerpts

Cooper, Quentin, and Sullivan, Paul. Maypoles, Martyrs, and Mayhem - 366 days of British customs, myths and eccentricities. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1994. pp. 47-48, 214. (Irreverent synopsis with a wide sense of humor. Sometime it hits dead on, but other facts are lost or twisted to the wit. For the first piece, the book highlights February 27, the date of the fire. "Marie Lairre was walled up in Borley, Essex after an illicit affair with a monk. Alternatively, she was strangled by the lord of the manor. Whichever is true, any ghost could be forgiven its disgruntled haunting after such an ignominious end. Marie was content with harmless manifestations in Borley village, roaming the streets and hanging out with a rather unoriginal coach and headless horses until 1863, when Reverend H.D. Bull built Borley Rectory across one of her favorite routes. Marie decided it was time to up her profile." At almost every turn, the exaggerations stray far from the legend. "Ghostly coaches began to race through the rectory walls and out on to the lawn." Also incorrectly states that a "flying candlestick bounced off [Smith's] head." The inaccuracies continue to the explanation of the fire: "a levitating lamp flung itself to the floor." The second piece is under July 28, the appearance of the nun. These two paragraphs are told in a more factual manner. It would be unfortunate if the first time reader took the first section to heart without being aware of the stretching and warping of the legend as published elsewhere.) **T Scanned

Coxe, Antony D. Hippisley. Haunted Britain. London: Hutchinson & Co. 1973. pp. 10, 103-4. (Guidebook. Photo of wall writings and burned out rectory from a different angle than most often seen. Caption reads, "Borley rectory after the fire that destroyed it and, apparently, some of the ghosts." One paragraph entry: "Borley the rectory, now demolished, was the most famous haunted house in England. Not all the manifestations were concerned with the hideous Victorian house - for instance, the ghost of a nun - so it is still worth a visit. . . .Arguements will rage about this cause celebre for many years, simply because there is so much evidence on both sides." Refers to Price in the Preface by saying, "Some [researchers] have to deceive themselves if things do not work out, and occasionally stoop to trickery." He goes on to say that after reading both of Price's books, the reader should then read the Dingwall/Hall/Goldney book as it "presents a different picture." Does not mention Hastings rebuttal. Although written 30 years after the building was razed, informs readers, "it is still worth a visit," which is impossible.)**T Not scanned.

Cribbs, Gillian. See Burks, Eddie

Crocker, Sir William Charles. Far From Humdrum: A Lawyer's Life. London: 1967. Chapter 23, "The Most Haunted House in Britain." pp. 199-205. (Includes information on the investigation into the fire, which he calls an "outlandish case." Recounts Legend briefly, including ensuing arguments. Crocker claims Price carefully edited his material to show bias, and did not "let his readers know that the Borley 'manifestations' were easily explained. Trailing branches scrapped and tapped with eerie fingers on walls and shutters, 'horrible sounds' from a locked room were made by the flapping of a frightened bird which had tumbled down the chimney; others, whispers, footsteps and such, which seemed to come from inside the house came in fact from outside and were disguised by the peculiar acoustic properties of the courtyard." Crocker acted for the insurance company with Colonel Cuthbert Buckle, an adjuster "with some 20,000 such claims already to his credit." They rejected each of three versions for the fire told by Capt. Gregson. The ruins were sifted, finding only one Victorian farthing instead of the rare coin collection Gregson claimed. The investigators noted the Captain's underwear was only singed inside a chest of drawers, "They were of the poorest quality, darned, worn out, and fit only for the rag-bag," instead of "highly priced" as claimed. Gregson paid £500, but wrote a policy for £10,000. To avoid costly litigation of a case they knew they could win, they settled for an award of £750 plus costs. "We hid our chagrin and paid." Critical piece to the whole puzzle.)**T Scans

Danby, Mary. Madabout Ghosts. London: Piccolo Books, 1991. p. 12-13. Sketch of rectory. (Danby has Harry Bull contacting Harry Price to investigate. Actually, the Smiths contacted a newspaper, and the newspaper contacted Price. Ethel Bull and an un-named sister contacted Price on September 29, 1931 and discussed the Foyster phenomena. Assumes the Foysters were driven out by a poltergeist, when they left only after Lionel collapsed in the pulpit from ill-health.) ** photocopy

DAS BESTE, Verlag. Unglaublich aber wahr. "Englands Spukhaus Nummer Eins." Germany 1976. pp. 426-28. Pictures of rectory and of wall writings. (Various stories about strange phenomenon from all over the world, including Borley)** photocopy

Day, Harvey. Occult Illustrated Dictionary. London: Kaye & Ward, Inc. 1975. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. pp. 23, 102. (Brief paragraphs on Borley, Price, poltergeists, and Garrett. Contains discrepancies such as "Price lived there for some time." Calls Henry Bull psychic - perhaps a reference to an article by The Rev. R. W. Maitland, who wrote an "explanatory theory," - not based on first hand knowledge - "It was brand new when Mr. Henry Bull moved into it, filling it with his psychic power. . . " [Light, January 23, 1941. quoted in EBR, p. 318.] No other reference is made in the original record of Henry being psychic.)**T

Day, J. Wentworth. Ghosts and Witches. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1954. pp. xii, 172. Illustrated. (Hall's catalogue says, "Chapter IV contains an account of the author's experiences at Borley.")

Deary, Terry. True Mystery Stories. London: Scholastic Children's Books. pp. 61-73. "Who Burned Borley?" Four stylized drawings by David Wyatt. ("Find out. . . . if the ghosts of Borley rectory can ever rest in peace." The main part of the Borley section is a narrative between Captain Gregson and Edward Thin from the insurance company, and some 'locals' in a pub. They rehash the history (very roughly, and wrongly), with Gregson blaming the fire on the ghosts. Then follows a fact file which goes through the points (such as the nun, the coach, the wall writings) and proves that they aren't real (for example it directly blames Marianne for writing the wall writings), before finally stating that Gregson was a fraud and a liar and burned the rectory for the money. - Jamas Enright. A note at the beginning of the book says, "The facts behind these stores are true. However, they have been dramatized to make them into gripping stories, and some of the characters are fictitious." For his series of books titled Horrible Histories, he wrote, "I'm not a historian, I'm an actor turned story teller." These disclaimers are important, as Deary has Capt. Gregson soaking a pile of books in paraffin before starting them on fire. "Once he was sure the house was well ablaze he strolled down to the village and called the fire brigade. . . . . Captain Gregson was never paid [by the insurance company]." No such vivid proof of arson was ever found; Gregson sent his sons for help; the insurance company settled for £1000. The name "Edward Thin from West Essex Insurance" does not show in the records. The actual investigators were Col. Cuthbert Buckle and William Charles Crocker. The name of the insurance company is not given. The threat from Sunex Amures about the fire is simplified and clarified to the author's interpretation. The date of the seance is incorrect, however, being 27 March 1938 instead of May. There is no proof that "Marianne wrote the [wall] messages herself," as the author writes. Deary suggests "If you study the ghost's handwriting you will see it is exactly the same as Marianne's handwriting!" Emphasis original. He does not include samples of each, nor does any other public source provide such a comparison - how did the author make this conclusion? Profile of Deary ) ** photocopy of chapter

Dening, Rev. John C. The restless Spirits of Langenhoe. Brandon, Suffolk: Dening, 2000. Limited printing. ("It seems that the Bishop of Colchester had paid a visit to Borley, and as reported to Rev Dening by another clergyman, 'It appears that he was sitting talking to the incumbent [the late Rev. Eric Smith] when, with al the doors and windows closed, all of a sudden there sailed through the air apparently from nowhere, a large-sized pebble which, after more or less parting His Lordship's hair, dashed itself against the fireplace.' The haunting of Langenhoe Church, some 20 miles from Borley and also, as it happens, formerly owned by the Waldegrave family, was well witnessed and thoroughly investigated." - Guy Lyon Playfair ) **T autographed excerpts

Dicks, Terrance. The Borley Rectory Incident. London: Piccadilly Press, 1998. 94 pages. Hardcover and paperback. (Fiction from one of the "Dr. Who" writers. "Part of the Unexplained series, a novel set in Borley Rectory, allegedly the most haunted building in England, in which a young boy and a professor attempt to investigate paranormal activities, and finding a new explanation for the macabre activities discover that they are in danger themselves." - Dillons Bookstore Ltd. It took me forever to get a copy of this, as it is unavailable in the United States. My initial order with Dillons was lost, but I finally got a copy 11 months after it was released. The narrator has a daydream about how a "red glass candlestick came whizzing down the stairs and shattered against the stove." Other elements of the Borley Legend weave themselves through the narrative including a ruddy parson clutching a riding whip. This surprises me, as it was not publically known that Henry was a sportsman, and although he did not own a horse, he did love to ride - something Mrs. Baines wrote but which was never published. Harry was more sedate. Also, it was Harry who said he would come back. Wall writings feature prominently in this small tale, although this time they are in blood - as at Amherst. Perhaps that is only for dramatic effect? The message is practically the same as at Borley - "Help me. Please help me." The author hits it right on when he talks about the place having "even more journalists, mediums and psychic investigators than ghosts." The observation is made that "According to several sources, it's almost as big a ley line intersection as Stonehenge." A few things do not jive with the facts at Borley, including the often misquoted number of rooms - 35 - and children - 17. Since these are common numbers in later years, the author must be reading the same resource read by other writers, but I wonder why none consult the original two books by Price to get the real numbers? If you count all the bathrooms and storage rooms outlined in the graphics by Price, you still only come up with about 25 rooms. In 1996, Ivan Banks comes up with the number 32, but he is counting stairs and landings in his total. Price counts 14 children - "12 of whom survived" - on page 15 of The Most Haunted House in England. My resources show a total of 13 children including a baby who died in infancy, but there may be another infant. Still, that does not total 17. In this book, the nun walks through the wall, but she was never inside the rectory. Another problem is with the ruins. There aren't any. There haven't been any ruins since 1944, but in this book they play an important part of the plot. That is unfortunate for Borley residents, as mentioning the nonexistent ruins will surely induce the curious to come and see them - something the villagers vehemently oppose. I do recognize this is a work of fiction, and these twists only add to the drama. The story is a very fast read for young teenagers, and you won't guess the ending - unless you look carefully at the cover or unless you have read some of the other books in this series, most notably, The Circle of Death Incident. I particularly enjoyed the part where the narrator makes an attempt to research Borley on the Internet, but fails to get a connection. It is fun to speculate what he might have found at www.borleyrectory.com! The conclusion generally dismisses the spooks, but it does observe, "There's always the possibility of a little nugget of truth at the heart of it all.")**T/**T autographed

Dicks, Terrance. The Easter Island Incident. Piccadilly Press, 1999. pp. 10-11. ("Some time ago I'd started having nightmares about a haunted house called Borley Rectory. Soon afterwards we'd been involved in an affair in which the rectory featured prominently.") ** photocopy of pertinent pages

Dicks, Terrance. The Transylvanian Incident. Picadilly Press, 1998. pp. 15, 16, 18. ("That was below the belt. I had had nightmares recently, but they hadn't been caused by anything as harmless as old horror movies. They were connected with some very strange events we'd been investigating at Borley Rectory, once known as the most haunted house in England." "Ms Alexander was Director of a mysterious security agency. We'd worked together on the Borley rectory business, and on a previous affair at Sonehenge." "...an acid-tongued bureaucrat called Harker, who'd come to a sticky end over the Borley Rectory business.") ** photocopy of pertinent pages.

Dicks, Terrance. True Horror Stories. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. 1997. Originally published in Great Britain in 1997 by Robinson Publishing Ltd. pp. 16-20. (For youth audience. Pulled from pages 45-6 of MHH are the correct observations, "One night all the bells in the house - twenty of them - started ringing at once. Then there was the sound of rushing water." These are from the memories of the Bull sisters given to Price. On page 79 of MHH, Dicks found a reference to Lionel's diary: "The vicar also recorded that stones and other small missiles were hurled all the time, sometimes twelve or thirteen in one night." With the Price original available to him, it is odd that Dicks would write, "[Henry Bull] had seventeen children!" On page 15 of MHH, Price wrote, "Rev. Henry Bull had 14 children, 12 of whom survived.") **T

Dingwall, E.J.; Goldney, Kathleen M.; Hall, Trevor H. The Haunting of Borley Rectory - A Critical Survey of the Evidence. London: Duckworth, 1956. (Full-scale frontal attack on Marianne and Price. Hall wrote chapters II, III, V, and VII - see "Notes" in A Skeptic's Handbook by Kurtz. Dismisses Whitehouse and d'Arles accounts as from unreliable sources. Suggests Adelaide may have started "poltergeist" fire [p. 106], and made at least some of the wall writings [p. 157]. Identifies Guy L'Strange as a "very well known physical medium," [p.107] who conducted a seance 23 January 1932 which was credited with causing a cessation of much paranormal activity, but which the authors claim only gave Marianne a chance to rest from her trickery. Details visit of Life magazine April 5, 1944 that resulted in a famous photograph of a floating brick at the ruins which they attribute to a workman's cleaning efforts. Allows no room for possible psychic phenomena: "...the evidence for haunting and poltergeist activity for each and every period appears to diminish in force and finally to vanish away." [p. 168] Trashes any thought Marianne was psychic: "The suggestion that Mrs. Foyster was mediumistic...is not confirmed by her immediate neighbors...after leaving Borley in 1935." [p. 89] States that a "...Dr. J.R.A. Davies, formerly a member of the Society for Psychical Research, who made some enquiries into the haunting of Borley Rectory himself in 1941, and had some correspondence with both Mrs. Foyster and Price. Dr. Davies informs us that in his convinced opinion the wall messages were executed in a thinly disguised version of Mrs. Foyster's own handwriting." [p. 123] This is most likely the same Dr. Davies described by Wood. Quotes Price as writing, "...the alleged haunting of the Rectory stands or falls not by the reports from our recent observers, but by the extraordinary happenings there of the last 50 years." Emphasis mine. See also: MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS for simultaneous publication by the Society for Psychical Research. Cover photo is a 16" by 12" painting by Sidney Glanville given to Hall.)**/**T Scans of complete book

Dingwall, Eric John. ; Hall, Trevor H. ; Goldney, Kathleen M. Le Presbytère hanté de Borley. Paris : Editions Denoël, 1958 ("Traduit de l'anglais par Hugues de la Chesneraye." Internet review in French. "The presbytery of Borley passed a long time for 'the most haunted house of England.' The multiplicity and the variety of the phenomena announced by several observers made the type of it even places infested by the noisy spirits, the poltergeist; torn off gates, shutters broken, gleams strange, terrifying sounds, stone rains, unexplainable displacements of the pieces of furniture, etc... Harry Price, celebrates it hunter of phantoms which had uncovered so many false m‚diums, elucidated so many false obsessions, offered its own testimony, supported so many meticulous observations; a modern equipment had been used; recorders cameras, infra-red circuit. Moreover didn't Price himself use his talents for the bad cause? It was necessary Dingwall, Goldney and Hall, for members of the English Company of Psychic Search, many efforts, many search, of many excavations of files to arrive to a final conclusion. The secrecy of the presbytery of Borley is now bored. In this book, the reader follows the course of the investigation step by step. It is the model of a parapsychologic investigation of the haunted houses, an exceptional psychological document, a true detective novel." Thanks to Andrew Clarke for web site information, and for the translation via babelfish.com)

Dingwall, E.J.; Hall, Trevor. Four Modern Ghosts. London: Gerald Duckworth, 1958. pp. 47, 55, 58, 64, 65, 66. (Mentions Borley only in passing, and then only as part of continuing effort to discredit Harry Price. Chapter II deals with the brief appearance of "Rosalie" in the writings of Price. This concerned the materialization of a very young girl through a seance. She had flesh, a heartbeat, and was warm to the touch. She also spoke. Hall concludes Rosalie was either fabricated, or embellished in an attempt to raise attention in 1939. After the successful publication of two books on Borley "made him famous, the time had come to disown her." Hall points out that Price was very close to Sidney Glanville during the Borley investigation, which coincided with the "appearance" of Rosalie. Yet, Price never mentioned the case to his best friend. Hall went through Price's papers and found correspondence between Price and Glanville about a visitor to Borley. The report had some discrepancies, and Glanville suggested throwing out the letter. Price included it, saying, "I will alter it a bit and let it go in. It makes a chapter." Hall points out that "poltergeists [like the ones reported at Borley] do not seem to like observers who know how to observe. They prefer simple people and country folk." He continues to say that, "It is so very rare that a competent person is present during a poltergeist outbreak." He suggests the possibility that earthquakes, underground water, hallucinations, fraud, or a combination of the above, may explain a great many "phenomena.") **T

Doherty, Gillian. Ghosts? London: Usborne, 1999. Tulsa: EDC Publishing, 1999. p. 47. Photo of rectory with caption. ("Borley Rectory, once described as the most haunted house in England." Juvenile.) **T

Domesday Book. Compiled in 1085-1086 on the instructions of William the Conqueror. (Price indicates in MHH that according to the survey, "Borley is the modern spelling of the Anglo-Saxon Barlea meaning 'boar's clearing,' or 'boar's pasture.' The full text reads, " Barlea: Countess of Aumƒle; Grim and Godwin claim from Ansketel, who holds from Richard FitzGilbert. 2 beehives. (Churchyard with 15 yews. )" A modern reprint was edited in March 1997 by Thomas Hinde, The Domesday Book: England's heritage, then and now. Paperback - 336 pages. A 1983 translation by Alexander Rumble expands on the earlier survey. The General Editor for the project was John Morris. On page 91 a.b. Rumble gives the translation as: LAND OF THE COUNTESS AUMALE Hundred of HINCKFORD. 1. She holds BORLEY in lordship which Leofwin, a free man, held before 1066 as a manor for 2 hides and 30 acres. Then 3 ploughs in lordship, later and now 2. Always 5 men's ploughs; 10 villagers; 5 smallholders. Woodland, 30 pigs; meadow, 40 acres. 7 cattle, 25 sheep, 24 goats, 28 pigs, 2 beehives. Value then and later £8, now 12. More information )

Downes, Wesley. The Ghosts of Borley: Legends, ghosts, hauntings, intrigues and unsolved mysteries. Clacton-on-Sea, Essex: Wesleys Publications, 1993. 60 pages. (Photo of "veiled bride" not published anywhere else except for the Downes newsletter, Essex Ghosts and Hauntings Number 1, Spring 1994. Contains much additional information but no cross-references such as names and specific dates. "Legend has it, that at the time when Oliver Cromwell's men were plundering the churches, the wise clergy of Borley decided to bury most of the plate etc. in the churchyard. . . . with the passage of time, the location was forgotten. . . . a diviner tried to locate this treasure, but failed to do so. . . .she arrived with three men from the BBC. . . .the hazel twig twisted and turned. . . . near a large walnut tree. . . . the men started digging. . . . with time slipping by, and the clouds threatening rain at any minute, they [filled the hole]. . . the missing valuables still have not been found." No year given for this dig - one of many. "In 1987/8, a group of local investigators set out to find what they believed was an entrance to the crypt from the churchyard. After spending several unsuccessful hours searching, one of the group discovered a vault with no epitaph that was surrounded by iron railings. One of the team climbed over the ironwork and tapped some of the paving slabs, one in particular sounded hollow, so he gently lifted it to reveal some broken brick steps leading to a tunnel; slowly entering, he was able to walk some thirty feet when he encountered a skelton near a metal staved wooden door. Shining a torch through the keynote, he was able to see a small altar and a coffin, a large bundle of papers on the floor and a passageway with a door bearing a plaque inscribed Anno Doomini 1921 H.F.B. Obvioulsy Henry Foyster Bull. The crypt entrance was found to be directly under the present altar." A slight mix-up in the chronology makes it look as if messages to Marianne were written on the walls after she left - writings were observed during the Price investigations, but they were mostly scratches, not complete messages.)**T

Dunne, John. J. IRLAND, DIE WELT DER GEISTER, Eulen Verlag. Also A Ghostwatchers Guide to Ireland, Pelican Publishing, June 2001. Appletree Press has co-published the book in Germany with Eulen Verlag and in the US with Pelican Publishing. Unfortuntely John Dunne died a couple of years ago. (One section on Borley)

Edsall, F.S. The World of Psychic Phenomena. New York: Bell Publishing, 1958. pp. 124-127. (Details how to find the Guy L'Strange report in the Yarmouth Independent [newspaper], July 7, 1934. Erroneously says Marianne added to childish pranks of the previous inhabitants because she wanted to move. Moves building to Suffolk.)**T

Elfman, Eric. The Very Scary Almanac. New York: Random House, 1993. p. 40. (One page devoted to "The Most Haunted House in England." The red glass candlestick thrown after Price and Wall descended the stairs becomes a candelabra. Price is supposed to have "spent a year living there himself," and his investigators also saw "flying candlesticks." How do these discrepancies crop up? Did the author find them elsewhere, or create them from scratch? While this book is written for a juvenile audience, it contains very disturbing details from the story of Vlad the Impaler.) **

Emert, Phyllis Raybin. Ghosts, Hauntings, and Mysterious Happenings. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1992. pp. 43-47. (Aimed at a younger audience, it asks, "What ghostly phenomena have not taken place at Borley Rectory?" The answer: "very few." An accurate synopsis in simple but interesting terms. Borley is one of 27 stories. Even includes a short but very good bibliography.)**T

Encyclopedia Britannica. 1939 Yearbook. "Psychical Research" by Harry Price. (Photo of ghost hunting equipment.)

Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Fourth Edition. Edited by J. Gordon Melton. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. pp. 494, 576, 1033-34. (Massive, 1500 page, two-volume work does not have a specific section on Borley. Under "Haunted Houses," it states, "The reputation of 'The Most Haunted House in England' was bestowed upon Borley Rectory in Suffolk by psychical researcher Harry Price. . . .Price rented the rectory for a year and advertised for observers. Over a period of 14 months, 2000 paranormal phenomena were reported: voices, footsteps, ringing of bells, locking and unlocking of doors, messages on walls, transportation of objects, crashes, breaking of windows, starting of fires, lights in a window, the apparitions of a nun, and a ghost coach with a headless coachman." Borley is in Essex. The title of the book was in quotation marks because that is how neighbors referred to the rectory as Price made his first inquiry. The 2000 paranormal phenomena were described by Lionel in his diaries, they did not take place during Price's tenancy, and the coach was seen by others, not the Foysters nor Price's observers. "Price died in 1948, two years after publication of another book, The End of Borley Rectory, following the demolition of the rectory. Seven years later, psychical investigators [Dingwall, Goldney and Hall] published another book, The Haunting of Borley Rectory (1956), alleging that Price deliberately faked phenomena and distorted the Borley story. Hall later followed this work by The Search for Harry Price (1978) in which he attempted methodically to demolish Price's reputation not only as a psychical researcher but also as an individual, but in the end simply overstated his case against Price. So far as Borley Rectory is concerned, the claimed hauntings stretch back in time to the period of its construction, long before the appearance of Price on the scene." Borley is mentioned in an article on Fraud - "After the death of veteran psychical researcher Harry Price, other researchers declared that Price had been guilty of deception in the famous case of the haunting of Borley Rectory, and that doubt must therefore be cast upon his other investigations. In his biography The Search for Harry Price (1978), author Trevor Hall even questions Price's personal integrity. Hall seems to go beyond the evidence of Price's shortcomings as a researcher in extending his critique to Price's basic honesty." The biographical sketch of Hall points out, "His book Strange Things ruined the reputation of Ada Goodrich-Freer, and The Search for Harry Price effectively denigrates the character and work of the famed psychical researcher." Section on Price is mostly favorable, and points out he made an early talking picture, Psychical Research in 1935. ) **T

Ettinghausen, Maurice. Rare Books and Royal Collectors. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. p. 67. ("A remarkable and unusual customer was Mr. Harry Price (1881-1948), the author of a number of best-sellers on haunted rectories and other occult subjects. A wealthy industrialist, he was keenly interested in magic and psychical phenomena and managed to amass one of the best-known collections on conjuring, stage illusions, mesmerism, spiritualism and all forms of occult activities. On his death he bequeathed this magnificent library - of which there is now an excellent catalogue - to London University. At first he was an ardent disbeliever in all occult manifestations, but he gave one the feeling, after many years of investigations with all kinds of machinery devised to catch fradulent and unwary mediums, that he had begun to beleive in some forms of telepathy and spirits.") ** T

Evans, Hilary. Intrusions - Society and the paranormal. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1982. pp. 162, 168-71. Full page photo of floating brick does not include workman, and is reversed. (Staunch supporter of Harry Price who was "dissected and sharply criticised [by SPR investigators for]. . . his handling of the celebrated Borley Rectory case, unleashing a storm of controversy which remains unresolved to this day." Believes that Price "courted publicity not so much for himself as for the field of work with which he identified himself. He wanted the world to take psychical research seriously. . . He earned his credibility by exposing fraud. . . almost entirely at his own expense." The author writes, "Looking at [the Borley case] objectively, and from a distance in time, we may suspect that the inquiry itself generated the conditions in which further manisfestations became possible. . . .he was a disillusioned man craving some kind of reassurance, and seeking to make Borley the occasion for it. . . . Though one must agree. . . that the Borley case was in many respects poorly handled, it is not necessary to believe, as some have alleged, that Price deliberately faked the evidence." No details of the alleged haunting are presented.) **T

Eysenck, Hans J. and Sargent, Carl. Explaining the Unexplained. Prion: 1993. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd; 1984. Previously published in 1982, and perhaps elsewhere. p. 162. Rare picture of ruins being explored by students. No year given. (Aimed at disproving the paranormal. "The 'phantom nun' of Borley Rectory in Yorkshire was thoroughly investigated by the Society for Psychical Research in 1929, but no good evidence was found. Rumors of haunting seem to predispose people to see apparitions." Borley is in Essex, not Yorkshire. The photo is not of an SPR investigation, but of a student visit. Price's investigation that started in 1929 was never under the auspices of the SPR.) **T

Fairley, John, and Welfare, Simon. Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers. London: William Collins Sons & Co. 1984. Book Club Associates, 1985. pp. 141-45. (Four photos crammed into compact version, including front page of Suffolk and Essex Free Press for June 13, 1929 with only the headline, "Borley Ghost Facts." Describes expose of Hall, et. al., and says that Harry, "spent an abnormal amount of time sleeping, and he may have had hallucinations." After much discussion of the SPR findings, the authors focus on the Iris Owen/Pauline Mitchell interviews and declares, "Marianne put much of the blame on her husband. The Rev. Foyster, it seemed, had been writing a largely fictitious account of goings-on at the rectory in the hope of earning enough money through its publication to ensure that she would be adequately provided for after his death. . . .Price, however, by no means escaped criticism, for Marianne Foyster believed that he was not fooled by the fiction." Very few other resources even mention the Owen/Mitchell report.)**T

Farson, Daniel. Beaver Book of Horror.

Farson, Daniel. The Hamlyn Book of Ghosts in Fact and Fiction. Hamlyn.

Finucane, R.C. Ghosts : Appearances of the Dead & Cultural Transformation Prometheus, 1996. p. 141, 218 London: Junction Books, 1982. (One paragraph about how Price "carefully and skillfully exploited" the "earlier reputation" of the site. "There is little to add to the Borley story. . . . except that there is nothing to distinguish its uninformative apparitions from similar cases reported in hundreds of other localities." Also calls the "Tedworth disturbance of 1661" the "Borley Rectory of the seventeenth century.") **T

Flew, Anthony. A New Approach to Psychical Research. London: Watts & Co., 1953. pp. vii, 161. Chapter 4, "Spontaneous Phenomena." (Goss says it includes "Harry Price's discredited Borley accounts." Hall's catalogue describes this as "A partial exposure of Borley and an anticipation of the S.P.R. report appears on pp. 26-8.")

Fodor, Nandor. Between Two Worlds. New York: Parker Publishing Co. 1964. pp. 206-208. (Rigorously defends Price. Refers to the publication of A Critical Survey by saying, "No greater scandal has ever erupted in psychical research than over this preposterous exposure. The haunting of Borley Rectory stretches way back in time, beyond the initial appearance of Harry Price on the scene in 1929.")**T Scans

Fodor, Nandor. See also Carrington, Hereward.

Foley. Catholic Martyrs in Essex. pp. 12-14. (Located at the Essex Record office in Chelmsford by Alison Love. Appears self-bound, so there may be few copies printed.) ** photocopy

Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain. London: Reader's Digest Association, 1973. pp. 230-231. Photo of wall writings. (Map of area on pages 226-27 gives location of Borley as part of a chapter dealing with "The Witch Country." Tells story in condensed, factual manner. Mistakenly has coach seen by Edward Cooper and Mary Pearson "tearing across the dining-room, through the wall," when in fact they said it was "rapidly sweeping across the hedge and road," and "through the trees," respectively. Includes sketch of the burning rectory not published elsewhere.)**T Scans

Forman, Joan. Haunted East Anglia. London: Robert Hale and Company, 1974. Fontana, 1976, 1977. Norwich: Jarrold Publishing 1985, 1990. pp. 90, 115-16. (Author was sent a letter from Mrs. Violet Sorfleet [pseudonym?] detailing a night-time visit to the ruins in the late autumn of 1939. The subject and two friends were walking by when they stopped to lean against the gate and discuss the haunting. They were skeptical. Then, "out of nowhere came the most evil, filthy presence. We were surrounded by a moist, misty, something, which hid us from each other and terrified us. My hair stood on end, and I leapt off the gate ran like hell to some cottages about a mile away." Laughter followed the young woman as she and her friends ran away. Forman says, "The sensation of infinite corruption and defilement is often associated with evil. It is also associated with a certain type of psychic manifestation known as an elemental." When the author visited some decades later, the place was pleasant enough and the woman and young boy she met did not believe in the hauntings.)**T

Forman, Joan. The Haunted South. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1978. Norwich: Jarrold, 1989. (One sentence comparing Borley with another vicarage.) **T

Foy, Robin. In Pursuit of Physical Mediumship. London: Janus, 1996. pp. 87-88. (Unique telling of tape recordings at Borley. Unearthly voice with an accent described thwarted attempt at photography as "Huh. That's another one vaisted." Another time the voice said, "They are evil here.")

Foyster, Lionel Algernon. Diary of Occurrences Between February 1931 and July, 1931. Unpublished. (Thirty-one pages. Sent to Price October 3 of that year with a letter explaining it was "chiefly to send round to members of my family." This was confirmed by Hilda Foyster Hanbury to Alan Roper. She retained her copy. Apparently Foyster's first effort.) **photocopy

Foyster, Lionel Algernon. Fifteen Months in a Haunted House. Unpublished. (Longest version, using pseudonyms and intended for publication. Apparently written at various stages between 1932 and 1938. Price did not have a copy until after The End of Borley Rectory was published. Obtained and subsequently sold by Trevor Hall - see comments by Alan Wesencraft, curator, Harry Price Library.) **photocopy

Foster, Lionel Algernon. Summary of Experiences at Borley Rectory. Unpublished. (Seven pages. Supposedly written between January 24 and February 11, 1938 at request of Harry Price for inclusion in Most Haunted House.) **photocopy

Friedman, Jason. Haunted Houses. New York: The Trumpet Club, 1992. pp. 15-19. (For younger audiences, it contains a fairly accurate report, and a picture of the rectory is featured on the front cover. Three other photos are included inside, including the "ghost" photo taken by Thurston Hopkins of the rectory gate January 1955, the church, and the rectory. The text says, "Ethel Bull, one of the sisters who said she had seen the nun, admitted that nothing strange had ever happened at the rectory.") **T water damaged

FUN FAX Horror File New York: Henderson, 1996. (Children's binder mixes true and fictional stories with games and stickers. Borley is listed in alphabetical section under ghost hunters. "Borley Rectory was said to be the most haunted place in England. Its twelve ghosts moved out when the house was demolished in 1944, but since then, ghostly music and a phantom nun have been sighted in the cemetery." Three more paragraphs describe period and modern ghost hunting techniques and equipment.) **T

Furneaux, Rupert. The World's Most Intriguing TRUE MYSTERIES. Hardcover - New York: Galahad, 1965. pp. 192-203. Paperbacks - New York: ARC Books, 1969. New York: ARCO Publishing, 1977. Map of grounds, etching of two men trying to escape stones. ("No ghost story has ever been substantiated." Reprints Daily Mail reports of June 10-11, 1929 by V.C. Wall. Uses extensive material from the SPR attack of 1956. Written prior to the 1969 rebuttal by Hastings. Chronicles how 116 newspaper articles were published after the fire. Condensation errs by having skull fragment and piece of jaw "buried in the churchyard," without detailing Liston churchyard. Focuses on exaggerations by Price. Mostly historically accurate, but has its own exaggerations to prove a point. For example: "The most remarkable occurrences took place only after [Price's] arrival on the scene. Raps were heard, lights were seen, people were thrown to the ground and bricks hurtled through the air only when he was present." Price did report phenomena from his visits, but the bulk of his material is from independent witnesses relating events when he was absent. Totally inaccurate when Furneaux states, "It was curious that the words which appeared on walls, some of which stated, 'I cannot understand - tell me more," and gave the name of 'Marianne,' appeared only when Harry Price brought up the rear of the party of investigators. . . " Edwin Whitehouse clearly stated that ". . . while the place was vacant, I paid frequent visits to Borley, examining roms, rafters, and every corner of the house. We found Mrs. Foyster's Christian name 'Marianne' pencilled up on the walls . . . in some cases there was 'please help' added. . . On June 16. . . we found some fresh writing on the wall. . ." MHH, pp. 93-4. "Underneath the message ['Marianne get help,'] is printed in capitals 'I cannot understand, tell me more.' These words were written by Mrs. Fosyter, hoping that a second message would elucidate the first." MHH, p. 146. Concludes, "Price put psychical research 'on the map,' . . . but his map was all wrong.") **/**/** T

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