Shane Leslie's Ghost Book

I cannot recommend this book enough. I'm 50 years old with a history degree and 17 years experience as a guide in the Eternal City. The Bibliography is also an outstanding study resource. This book has filled a gaping lacuna in Catholic and even ethnic historiography. Divulgative but elevating.

The stories were great. Giving 4 stars instead of 5 because I found the beginng to be a bit tedious to get through

This book gives a Catholic view of the paranormal, and is well worth picking up and giving a read. Certainly not dogmatic, but also does not contradict dogmas or doctrines.

This book is an invaluable collection of ghostly (ghastly) experiences with ghosts, mostly purgatorial, but sometimes hellish. Mostly frequent are about those souls who desire masses said for their repose, and this seems fitting. On the other hand, the last entry is truly chilling in its sheer atmosphere of evil and otherworldly spite. The book is one to savor but also one to save for rereading because it is hard to put down; only so many of these occurrences read consecutively stick in the mind. They need a second telling one day or night at a time to get the full flavor.

"It is often urged that ghosts are not much heard of in Catholic countries compared with the British Isles. This is not so. Perhaps they are less persistent where Masses can be easily procured for their allayance." This book can be an effective gift for someone on the journey of conversion. It can spark conversation about life after death and the communion of saints. This is packed with detailed accounts recorded by clergy and others of things commonly disbelieved by the proud.

An excellent compilation of stories, encouraging and sometimes downright terrifying (especially, entertainingly, for younger folks around Halloween-time!). Highly recommended.

The Ownly Book I Have Is Hungry Souls OK.

I used to love books about ghosts and hauntings when I was a kid. This one is even better in that it fits in with and upholds the Catholic faith.

Leslie's Ghost Book is not only a great read, but it will open your mind to the reality that our souls are eternal and that God sometimes allows that reality to manifest itself to our senses. For me, it was a reminder to pray earnestly for the poor souls in Purgatory

Sir Shane's book is an excellent collection of stories that vary from curious anecdotes to chilling tales. It is therefore a bit eclectic, but the Catholic & scholarly perspective offered throughout makes this a particularly fun read for anyone interested in Ghost stories from the British isles; or who just wants some wholesome, seasonal reading for the Autumn months that can easily be read all together, or piecemeal as curiosity takes you.

My family and I enjoy reading this book of real ghost stories on St. John's Eve, All Saints Eve, and Christmas Eve!

I originally got this book just for the stories. I was in for a surprise when I the rest of it ended up being pretty great to. Some of it went over head and it really warrants a second reading.

That aside, the ghost stories are fantastic and worth the cost of the book alone. Worth sharing with friends and family around the camp fire.

I highly recommend this book to anybody looking for Christmas Eve, St. John's Eve, or All Hallow's Eve reading or if you are interested in learning more about the Church's teaching on ghosts!

"Shane Leslie's Ghost Book" is an excellent compiling of Catholic ghost stories, and Catholic teaching on the Preternatural in a single book. A perfect meditative read for All Soul's, or a chilling source for real-life stories to scare friends and family around the fire place.

Shane Leslie’s "Ghost Book" is a great collection of essays on the afterlife, preternatural tales with a Catholic twist, and that quintessential English charm. The first section of the book explains what it calls "psychical phenomena," or, as we would know them to-day, ghost stories. I must admit that I found this part of the book a little hard to follow, since it refers often to the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) and famous figures from history associated with it. However, the introduction by Charles Coulombe puts Mr. Leslie's work in context and makes it thoroughly enjoyable nevertheless. The section of the book detailing the various hauntings was amazing! Everything from manifestly evil spirits to Confession-seeking clergy to decidedly Protestant poltergeists are to be found within these pages. One of these stories even made me cry, although I'll leave it to future readers to guess which one it was. All in all, Shane Leslie’s "Ghost Book" is a marvelous work -under the aegis of the Magisterium- that casts a light on the world beyond that which our eyes can see. God love you!

Shane Leslie’s ‘Ghost Book’ is a lovely collection of supernatural events that are all griping and well written. The book is a page turner from Charles Coulombe’s introduction to the tales themselves I found myself unable to put the book down. This is also a great book to read to others for a party activity or a children’s party. For quality it is top notch. But what I most like is that this is a book told by Catholics for Catholics. One main reason I love Tumblar House is I can find Historical and travel books with a Catholic perspective. That’s rare.
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My kids didn't want me to stop reading it to them. A great read especially during our month long novena for the Holy Souls in November. It captures the attention even of giggling cucks. +JMJ+

Motivates me to pray and try to avoid purgatory myself. This also provided me with the first Catholic perspective on ghosts I have ever heard. I actually used it to help "evangelize" a Protestant. (I don't recommend the book for those with severe anxiety and scrupulosity issues...but then again, those people can't read a large portion of books, so it should go without saying.)

Not for those devout Catholic who suffer much from anxiety. As for the rest, a stark reminder that the supernatural is real and that the holy souls need our help, and we need to become holy and earn those indulgences. Pray for the holy souls! Also, gives a good theological perspective on ghosts. Buy it this November!

I bought this book and got it just in time for the Halloween season and All Saints and All Souls Days. I found it a great time to reflect on the reality of the afterlife and how much we don't know, despite the claims of popular science. It stirred up thoughts of my own family stories concerning ghosts and the afterlife, making me want to ask my parents and grandparents more about them.
It's a great conservation starter filled with stories and personal accounts of the unexplained, and includes a brief history of the topic up to the time of it's publishing, of which I knew nothing! I also find it a great way to explore the topic of the afterlife from a Catholic's perspective, and not from an occult/pagan view, so prevalent in our culture today.
Do enjoy, you won't be disappointed if you have an inkling to explore the unknown!

It's interesting to see how in some of the ghost stories the various positions that ghosts have in relation to the sacraments. Some seek the sacraments out, while others are repulsed by them. Other than those stories, you also have scary ghost stories that are a mistake to read late at night. And after that, the final story is a fitting climax to the book. It is an epic tale that you will undoubtedly remember for the rest of your life.

This was a wonderful collection of short stories that will stick with me and continue to remind me that there is more to this reality than I see in my rather plain everyday work life. Coffins floating into churches, deceased sons waving goodbye to family members and of course a few terrifying hauntings - beautifully (although sometimes frightening) memorable stories that give further evidence for our Catholic Faith. I do not want to experience such an encounter, but it makes life more meaningful knowing that such is reality. Either every single ghost encounter ever told across all humanity is a fake, lie, or gross misunderstanding, or yes, indeed ghosts do exist, as our Church teaches us is so.

"Ghost Book" at first contains a discussion on ghosts and the attitude of the Catholic Church towards the phenomenon and then quickly dives into the Catholic ghost stories themselves. A wonderful little book that isn't just for a dark and stormy night (even if that's when I read most of it).

In one particularly memorable ghost story, Shane Leslie recounts the unusual haunting of a parish rectory, which began subsequent to the death of the previous pastor. The new priest was seemingly directed by strange tappings and rappings to go investigate, ending in the discovery of list of names for whom it had been intended that Mass be said. These Masses having been left unfinished by the former pastor's untimely death, when they had all been said for each of the souls, the haunting abruptly stopped.

Shane Leslie brings a solidly Catholic perspective and sensibility to the consideration of a phenomenon that has been believed all but universally across cultures and millennia.

Another front has opened in the struggle between Revolution and Counter Revolution. Traditional Catholics are purchasing Shane Leslie's Ghost Book (a sorely-needed addition to the counter-revolutionary bookshelf) and are coming to realise the post-Vatican II tendency to reject the existence of ghosts is not only false, but also harmful. In short: Ghosts are real!

I believe Counter-Revolutionary Catholics are mistaken to simply reject Vatican II, the New Mass, and bad manners/customs. We are also obliged to reject everything that is contrary to the Catholic faith, including anything proposed by "scientists" of our time that we see to be contrary to the Holy Scriptures or the tradition of the Church.

So when even the Popes are approving heliocentrism, evolutionism, polygenesis, billions-of-years-old-universe, etc, we must resist them on this. And, when the Church appears to be universally dismissing ghosts and related occurrences, they must be resisted here also.

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