Stephen Bayley

Plumbing the mysteries of poltergeists

Flushing lavatories late at night is what these ‘noisy spirits’ enjoy doing most, according to S.D. Tucker

issue 21 March 2020

This is a paranormal book — by which I mean it exists in a truly out of the ordinary netherworld of amiable smut and arch silliness not normally associated with titles reviewed in these pages. But hold on, there is a point — which I’ll come to later.‘Perhaps Wakdjunkaga was really Gef the Talking Mongoose.’

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