Haunted People: Story of the Poltergeist Down the Centuries

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1951. First edition. First edition, first printing. 225 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with black stamping. Very Good, cup ring to front board, in a Very Good dust jacket with toning, light edge wear, a few small abrasions to front panel, unclipped ($3.50). An uncommon history of the phenomenon of poltergeists written by an American paranormal investigator and Nandor Fodor, a Hungarian parapsychologist whose investigations of the alleged talking mongoose Gef in the Isle of Man inspired the 2023 film Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose with Simon Pegg. That case gets a 37-page chapter exclusively by Fodor in this historical survey. If you're unfamiliar with it and enjoy a good yarn (factual or not), you will be delighted. (Inventory #: 140947603)