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Holy Ghosts Or, How a (Not-So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night

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ISBN-10: 1585428191

ISBN-13: 9781585428199

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sandy Balfour, Gary Jansen

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In this extraordinary true story, the haunting of a Long Island household forces a respected writer and editor to reevaluate the mysteries of life and death as he struggles with the frightening truths of his childhood home and his town's past. Growing up in Rockville Centre, Long Island, Gary Jansen never believed in ghosts. His mother - a devoutly Catholic woman with a keen sense for the uncanny - claimed that their family house was haunted. But Jansen never found anything inexplicable in how their doorbell would sometimes ring of its own accord; or in the mysterious sounds of footsteps or breaking glass that occasionally would fill their home; or even in his mother's sometimes unnervingly…    
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Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/16/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Sandy Balfour plays and watches a lot of cricket. In his spare time he is a journalist, author and social activist. He is chair of the UK's leading Fairtrade chocolate company and has written four previous books including the critically acclaimed Vulnerable in Hearts and Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8). He lives in London with his girlfriend and their three children.

DENIS GIRARD is the former Cultural Attache at the French Embassy in London.D. P. Simpson is Head of the Classical Department at Eton College.