The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

About this book

A young man dreams of his own death. A house seems to remember its former occupants. A ghost story survives because someone insists the details really happened.

Andrew Lang gathers reported dreams, apparitions and uncanny experiences while asking how much weight such stories should carry. His tone moves between curiosity, humour and cautious inquiry, with an anthropologist's interest in the beliefs people share across cultures. The book is enjoyable precisely because the strange reports remain strange even when examined carefully.