From the Harry Price Library

by Stefan Dickers
Assistant Archivist at Senate House Library, University of London

Perhaps I could contribute something monthly to [this] section of the site as there are a wealth of fascinating things within the archive that I'm sure [your readers] would be interested in. Besides Borley, there are also a wealth of tales about Price's investigations that have kept me very interested (and often amused!) while working on the collection, such as the recreation of a black magic experiment on the Brocken in Germany with C.E.M.Joad in 1932 (which involved the attempt to turn a goat into a handsome young man!) and the case of Gef, the 'talking' mongoose on the Isle of Man. These may be fun to relate with some illustrations.

I have also attached a couple of photographs of the Harry Price exhibition. . . . . I'm afraid the quality of the pictures is quite poor and blurry as they were taken with my VERY cheap digital camera.

September, 2004