title: The World of Ghosts and the Supernatural
author:  Richard Cavendish 
description: YA-Everything about this volume is user-friendly and sure to appeal. The cover and ample illustrations are eye-catching. The information is arranged by major areas of the world: Europe; North and Central America; South America; Africa; Asia; Australasia and the Pacific. Each section has a map showing the sites of subjects mentioned in the text. The lively and readable text includes tales of doctors who successfully perform "psychic surgery" without anesthesia, curses of the Pharoahs, the vanishing hitchhiker, and phantom dogs (the basis of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles). The book is more suited to browsing than in-depth research because it covers each topic on double-page spreads-thus no subject exceeds two pages; in addition, the index is rather brief. The format and illustrations will make this volume popular, and may require a second copy to fill the demand.<BR><I>Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA</I><BR>Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # The Haunted Landscape
  
  
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  ONLY once in my life did I experience contact with the supernatural, and the
  incident is still inexplicable, looked at from the materialistic standpoint.
  It happened in connection with the death of a close friend of mine, Jack
  Lindsay, the artist.
  
  Jack was possessed of a stubbornly determined nature; he never gave up
  anything once begun, no matter how difficult the circumstances in connection
  with it. He was especially determined in regard to his painting; he often
  remarked, with a touch of quite natural melancholy in character with the
  observation, that death alone would stop him from reaching the highest poin