Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural
  • Published: 31 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448177066
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural

One man's search for the truth about ghosts

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31 May 2013
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2 Apr 2007
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'A ripping yarn that genuinely leaves you questioning how you view the world' Guardian

When journalist and ghost sceptic Will Storr heads to Philadelphia to meet Lou Gentile, a demonologist, he expects a little fun with an amusing eccentric. What he gets are terrifying experiences of spectral lights and horrific demonic growling - and all of his safe, adult preconceptions about ghosts instantly vanish.

In the cold light of day, Will decides on a quest for the truth about ghosts. He meets professional paranormal investigators and takes part in séances and a vigil in the most haunted house in Britain, tries out divining rods and ouija boards, and goes on set with TV's Most Haunted. But Will also seeks out the sceptics in clinical psychology and philosophy who ask if spirits are really just in our heads.

His journey is full of bizarre, terrifying and hilarious experiences, each one a new insight into life, death and what might come after.
  • Published: 31 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448177066
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

About the author

Will Storr

Will Storr has written for the Observer Magazine, The Times Magazine, Sunday Express, The Face, Loaded, NME, Q and the Mirror (Weekend Review section). His TV credits include RI:SE, Channel 4's 100 Worst Britons and Gonzo TV for Five. In the course of his travels, he's dressed up as a woman to impress the transexual leader of radical pro-suicide campaigners The Church of Euthansia, trained in jungle warfare with the British army in Belize, been arrested and then deported under armed guard from LA, was arrested again in Athens, when he sneaked Ground Force's Tommy Walsh into the site of the Olympic Stadium to help with a report on construction failures, driven at 140mph down A-roads with illegal street-car racers near Leeds, had his head sliced open by Backyard Wrestlers in Middlesbrough and performed a stand-up comedy routine in front of a load of students in Portsmouth. If all that wasn't dangerous enough, he's also spent the day with Ozzy Osbourne in his Beverly Hills mansion. This is his first book.

Praise for Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural

In the investigative mode of Jon Ronson and Louis Theroux, Storr makes the perfect companion for travels in the paranormal - highly amusing, thought-provoking and downright scary in equal measure

Zoo magazine

Starting as a light-hearted romp full of small-town losers who've read too much Stephen King, it soon morphs into a more thoughtful investigation... funny, engaging and genuinely frightening, it makes you wonder if all those horror movies you watched as a teenager had it right after all

Arena

Storr interviews everyone from mediums to monsterologists and recounts the lot in a simple, yet evocative style that makes this book hard to put down, even if you don't believe in the paranormal

Big Issue

A very amusing way to scare yourself stupid

Independent on Sunday

This award-winning writer is at the vanguard of the new British journalism. A taut, fascinating and funny book

Herald Sun (Australia)
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