Paranormal Concept Show Extra

Paul Rook, Kerry Greenaway & Richard Clements

Paranormal Concept 2020

Pb, 246pp, £9.99, ISBN 9798585816147

The first rule of self-publishing: get someone to proofread it. This book even has a typo in the back cover blurb, and the writers need to learn that the plurals of “mirror” and “ghost” aren’t “mirror’s” and “ghost’s”! The layout is awful, with no hyphenation and with frequent line gaps in the middle of sentences. No surprise that there’s no index – but there isn’t even a contents page.

Paranormal Concept Show Extra is a collection of short blogs by the presenters of the Paranormal UK Radio Network, on a variety of topics including Tarot, time travel, ghosts, spirit photography, Nikola Tesla, grays, mermaids and much more – all great fortean subjects. Some are quite interesting, but many are little more than musings. They’re not even edited for book publication, so several finish with “Until next time, take care” or similar.

Maybe regular followers of the show will find this worthwhile, but there are so many better books of this type.

Chris Hayhurst

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