
This title will be released on:
Oct 21, 2025
Description
This is a gripping and page-turning narrative drawing on decades of Cornell's casefiles, which survive as a huge and uniquely untapped repository of stories reported by ordinary people, as well as correspondence between some of the great intellectuals of the 20th century--including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Marie Curie. Award-winning journalist Ben Machell mines the extensive archives of the SPR for the first time to reveal the untold history of the secretive organization, and to understand our ceaseless fascination with the unexplained.
Product Details
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Publish Date | October 21, 2025 |
Pages | 304 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781538770689 |
Dimensions | N/A |
About the Author
Reviews
--Colin Dicky, author of Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places and The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
"Chasing the Dark combines the spookiness and investigative thrills of The X Files with brilliant research and a flair for historical narrative. This enthralling book will greatly satisfy anyone looking for thoughtful and thought-provoking insights into our perennial obsession with the supernatural."
--Lindsey Fitzharris, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Facemaker
"A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational. An engrossing, entertaining and distinctly unsettling read."--Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet
"Shiversomely eerie, ...so impressive in its research and remarkable in all it uncovers."--Tom Holland, author of Rubicon and Dominion
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