The Haunting of Borley Rectory
The Story of a Ghost Story
Sean O’Connor
Simon & Schuster 2022
Hb, 496pp, £20, ISBN 9781471194771
Writing about Borley Rectory – “the most haunted house in England” – is a fraught business. The ugly red-brick rectory itself, once situated in a hamlet on the borders of Suffolk and Essex, burnt down 84 years ago and its plot was built over half a century ago. Yet it persists as the topic of
