The Encyclopedia of Ghosts

The Encyclopedia of Ghosts is a 1984 book by Daniel Cohen that details documented supernatural phenomena.

[2] For each entry, author Daniel Cohen provides a condensed version of original reports, as well as an assessment of the veracity of the sighting.

[2] In the January 1992 edition of Dragon (Issue #177), John C. Bunnell thought this book would be "of considerable value to gamers in search of creatures and plots on which to hang adventures."

Although Bunnell found the subject matter to be wide-ranging, he noted that Cohen's summaries sometimes tended towards oversimplification: "in the Tower of London entry, for example, he mentions Richard III’s supposed murder of his princely nephews without noting that modern scholarship on the issue is at least sharply divided."

That sometimes makes the material sound more authoritative than it really is, and it tilts the books away from unbiased reportage into the realms of speculation."