The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories

by John Robert Colombo

Book Overview

This huge collection of stories filled with thrills and chills brings together the most notable stories from the archives of John Robert Colombo, Canada's "Mr. Mystery," and will cause you to wonder about the nature of human life and the afterlife.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550028448
• ISBN13: 9781550028447
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating compilation of old and new source material

Unlike most writers in this field, Colombo reprints original sources. So, instead of reading an inept, distorted modern rehash of an historical haunting or ghostly encounter, you get the way the story was presented by journalists of the day. Not only is this uncommon good sense, these old newspaper reports make fascinating reading. For more recent events, Colombo allows those who experienced strange things to speak for themselves, with a minimum of intrusion. The methodology here is not unlike that used by William Corliss in his Sourcebook Project, which set an unbeatable standard for the reportage of anomalous phenomena. Although Colombo fails to organize his material with Corliss's scientific rigour (and, in fairness, some of the material is so bizarre as to resist categorization), his work nevertheless towers over that his competitors, and cannot be too highly recommended to anyone seriously interested in the supernatural. Incidentally, Colombo does not take sides on whether or not any of this is true: he's neither a truculent debunker nor a credulous believer--which is just how it should be. A notable flaw: the book has no index.