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Submitted by Alfred Armstrong on 23 Jun 2014 - 15:35 Permalink

Thanks James. Yes, I know Crook Frightfulness from the 1st edition of Bizarre Books. I've never been able to afford a copy sadly, as it's much sought after.

Submitted by James (not verified) on 23 Jun 2014 - 15:19 Permalink

Nice to see MacLellan's book here. I believe it was a pseudonym - I did some research into this title myself many years ago that never came to fruition. More recently, another author wrote a good little precis of 'Extra-sensory Perception...' in issue 305 of Fortean Times, where it's discussed in relation to a very similar odd book (perhaps the ultimate odd book?) called Crook Frightfulness - an autobiography of a paranoid estate agent chased around the world by radio-operating ventriloquists.

Submitted by Alfred Armstrong on 23 Jun 2014 - 15:35 Permalink

Thanks James. Yes, I know Crook Frightfulness from the 1st edition of Bizarre Books. I've never been able to afford a copy sadly, as it's much sought after.

Submitted by Cuyler (not verified) on 08 Jun 2014 - 22:57 Permalink

Hearing a voice when there's no one around and the radio is not on must be disconcerting, so it's not surprising there would be attempts to explain it. I have occasionally heard a voice call my name - but always on the edge of sleep, and I am quite sure it is an artifact of my own brain. I suspect Mr Armstrong has read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (ills.divers) by Julian Jaynes (Houghton Mifflin 1976) where Jaynes explains his theory that early civilized man did hear from his subconscious as a "voice" and took it for the voice of a spirit.