A Century of Supernatural Stories

"Dare you enter the Labyrinth of Fear?" A man cutting his own mother as a witch
parents murdering their children as fairy changelings
villagers staking the living as vampires... Ghosts in towns, on farms, on ships
poltergeists that baffle all investigators
spectral cats, owls, dogs and sheep
a man shot dead as a ghost
an apparition which the witness falls right through
magical candles made from human fat and human hands... Not that long ago, the world was haunted: by superstitions, imaginary terrors, and even seemingly crude hoaxes which might cause their victims to quite literally die of fear. Strange as all this is, one thing is even stranger. Some of it was probably true. Given in the original voices of nineteenth century newspaper accounts, this Century of Supernatural Stories offers us a shadowy labyrinth of terrors real and imagined. Drawing on years of research into the supernatural, Richard Sugg offers to guide readers through this Labyrinth of Fear. But be warned: those who make it through may find that the world never looks quite the same again.