Straw Ghosts
Nicholas Humphrey, 2 October 1980
This house is haunted: An Investigation of the Enfield Poltergeist
by Guy LyonPlayfair.
Souvenir, 288 pp., £6.95, June 1980,0 285 62443 1 Show More
by Guy LyonPlayfair.
Souvenir, 288 pp., £6.95, June 1980,
Science and the Supernatural
by John Taylor.
Temple Smith, 180 pp., £7.50, June 1980,0 85117 191 5 Show More
by John Taylor.
Temple Smith, 180 pp., £7.50, June 1980,
“... to reach us from the other side, is not encouraging. In fact – if evidence it is – Mr Playfair’s account of the goings-on in an Enfield council house in 1977 suggests that the decline in standards which Broad detected twenty years ago has now become a rout. This is not a book for sensitive souls, nor is it a book about them. The objection is not ... ”
