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Tom mentions this as a childhood book he owned, which contained the story of Athenodorus and had illustrations of ghosts. He says 'I had the bumper book of ghosts, and that was the very first story in it.'

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The guest Roger Clarke's book, described by the hosts as 'the best book on ghosts' - Tom says he read it at Christmas in front of the fire and calls it 'one of the great, great reading experiences of my life.'

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Referenced in discussion of Gothic literature and its connection to Catholic Emancipation, mentioned as 'the castle of Otranto and Walpole is round about the whole time' when discussing the rise of Gothic literature.

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Roger Clarke discusses how the Hinton Ampner ghost story was told by Bishop Benson to Henry James, stating 'it's the source story for Turn of the Screw' in his view.

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Referenced as one of the major discoveries of the Society for Psychical Research founded in 1882, described as finding that 'the most common ghosts were ghosts of living people.'