From the ghostly black horse of Sutton Forest to the butcher of Adelaide Street, a haunted Brisbane lift to the chilling experiments carried out by Doctor Blood of the North Kapunda Hotel, Australia abounds in spooky stories that are all unnervingly based in fact and tied to real places you can visit or avoid.
In this engrossing new book, Martin searches out the dark corners of our subconscious in an attempt to explain our most deep-seated fears - why, despite famously being a nation of cynics, we just cannot quite ignore that bump in the night.
This book is an exploration of the phenomenon from earliest times to the present day that highlights the variety of activities of these most frightening of phantoms, the efforts of researchers to document and understand the phenomenon and the explanations that have been put forward.
