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Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England

Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England

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The title The Most Haunted House in England was first coined by Harry Price in his 1940 book on Borley Rectory, and it stuck. Spectral nuns, headless horsemen aside, the number of disturbances, windows breaking, shingles thrown down the stairs, wall writing etc etc... informs our very understanding of what a haunted house actually is. It certainly informed fiction from Shirley Jackson's seminal The Haunting of Hill House to Sarah Waters' more recent masterpiece The Little Stranger. But beneath all the ghostly occurrences lies an amazing series of human dramas. We cover them all. There are many finely written and researched books about Borley Rectory, but here we owe a special debt of gratitude to Sean O'Connor's comprehensive 2022 The Haunting of Borley Rectory: The Story of a Ghost Story published by Simon and Schuster.

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