A Collection of Curious Tales about The House
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Köp båda 2 för 399 krAllan Chapman is a graduate of the University of Lancaster; he received his
D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and holds three honorary doctorates from
other British universities. He is the author of The Victorian Amateur Astronomer and
The Medicine of the People, both also published by Gracewing, as well as ten other
books on the history of science. A historian of science and medicine, he lectures in
the Faculty of History at Oxford University, is a Member of Wadham College and
an Associate Member of Christ Church Senior Common Room, Oxford.
abbot aelfred the alchymist 1
The Hound from Hell in Christ Church Meadow 7
The Lost Chord 11
The Curious Death of the Revd Mr Burton 17
The Ghost of King Charles I 23
The Haunted Bog-House 27
The Ghost of the Fair Rosamund 31
Dr Robert Hooke and the Phantom ‘Drone’ 39
The Exploding Undergraduates 43
The Devil Comes to Dinner 47
The Phantom Bedesman 55
Tiddles of the House and Goliath the Giant Rat 61
‘Electrify’. John Wesley and the Electric Spark 65
The Phantom Body Snatcher 73
The Courageous College Porter and Arthur his Hound 77
Monkey Business 85
Tiglath-Pileser Goes to Church: The Bear’s Tail 91
Lewis Carroll and the Common-Room Cat 97
The Choristers, the Moonlight, and the Old Man
Pushing a Wheelbarrow 103
The Pathologist and the Train 107
Ghosts that Might Well Haunt Christ Church 111
A Corpse, a Resuscitation, yet no Ghost.
The True Story of Anne Greene 117
Postscript. Dr Thomas Willis (1621–1675) 123