Fifty years before
The Conjuring,
Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters
,
Insidious
and
Most Haunted
, there was
Hans Holzer
—a man known as the
“Father of the Paranormal.”
Holzer pioneered ghost-hunting methods still used today, and brought ghosts and ghost hunting into popular culture in the second half of the twentieth century.
Ghost Hunter
presented some of the first-ever case studies of haunting investigations, taken from Holzer’s own practice in the New York City area—ranging from Civil War-era spirits to the tormented ghosts of murder victims.
For devoted ghost-hunting aficionados curious about the practice’s history, there is no better place to start than the first book Hans Holzer wrote,
. This is the classic 1963 book that launched his publishing career and gained him international fame.
The prestige edition of the classic, trail-blazing work on ghost hunting will intrigue new fans and longtime devotees alike—part of the new Tarcher Supernatural Library.
The first three titles released in
Tarcher's Supernatural Library
are
(by Hans Holzer),
Romance of Sorcery
(by Sax Rohmer) and
Isis in America
(by Henry Steel Olcott).