THE SPOOR OF SPOOKS

by Bergen Evans ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A successor to The Natural History of Nonsense, this miscellany of misconceptions applies a skeptic's coup de grace to many of the cosseted falsehoods and fallacies which prevail among us and shows up the elements of hoax or hokum in many spurious claims-and fames. With enthusiasm, and wit, Evans douses dowsers; throws even more cold water on ESP and PK and its high priest, Dr. Rhine; and lays to rest many of the legends which still exist along with any subsidiary illusions we may hold about love and pregnancy, women and men, crime and narcotics, non-caters and non-sleepers, ""autointoxication"" and accidents, the law and its infractions, famous epigrams and episodes, etc. etc. And so, the worthlessness of all the things which have been ""dear to the illiterate, the ignorant, the unstrained and the unbalanced"" is exposed with implacable precision-and provides a highly entertaining odyssey through the wonderland of popular deceits and delusions.

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION