"Hans Holzer, the world's most famous psychic investigator, presents a guided tour of over fifty haunted houses - from simple cottages and farmhouses to mansions and fortresses. (This book) lifts the veil of superstition and hysteria that has long covered these fascinating presences and reveals the true mysteries involved. ... Professor Holzer explores the history of the world's most interesting ghost houses, and gives the exact locations of all the houses, how to reach them, and whom to contact for permission to visit, where this is possible. "
Hans Holzer, whose investigations into the paranormal took him to haunted houses and other sites all over the world, wrote more than 140 books on ghosts, the afterlife, witchcraft, extraterrestrial beings, and other phenomena associated with the realm he called “the other side.” Among his famous subjects was the Long Island house that inspired The Amityville Horror book and film adaptations. Holzer studied at the University of Vienna, Austria, and at Columbia University, New York, earning a master’s degree in comparative religion. He taught parapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology. Holzer died in 2009.