That splendid website The Spooky Isles is currently carrying an interview with the humble author, conducted by MJ Steel Collins. Amidst the waffling, poltergeists, vampires, dinosaurs and the Maggie
Wall Witchcraft Monument all get a look-in, as do H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley and the late great John Peel.
Have a gander here: http://www.spookyisles.com/2013/07/geoff-holder-paranormal-author-interview/
There is a podcast.
It is on Into the Dark Radio, www.intothedarkradio.net/apps/podcast/311740.
It is about poltergeists. Some of them from Scotland.
There is also wittering about poltergeists from the USA, Canada, France and other locations.
Vampires, demons, witches, fairies, thoughtforms and psychokinesis get a look-in.
Occasionally, jokes are made. One or two of them may even pass for being funny.
Into the Dark Radio is based in Ohio, yet can be heard and downloaded across the known world thanks to the miracle of the thing that all the cool kids are calling ‘the internet’.
Ta to Steve Rogers and Shawn McMahon for allowing me to maunder on. Follow them on that there Twitter, @IntoTheDrkRadio.
On Saturday 29 June I’m once more the guest of the radio show Spooky Southcoast, hosted by those indefatigable cataloguers of the curious, Chris Balzano and Matt Weisberg.
I’ll be talking poltergeists – specifically the cases and issues raised in Poltergeist Over Scotland and What Is A Poltergeist?
The show is broadcast live between 10pm and midnight Eastern Standard Time in the USA, or very early in the morning if you’re in the UK. The show is then available as a downloadable podcast at http://spookysouthcoast.com.
Spooky Southcoast is one of the world’s top-rated paranormal radio shows, having been downloaded more than two million times since 2006.
This month’s issue of Fortean Times (FT302, June 2013) contains a 9 out of 10 review of Poltergeist over Scotland. Some choice quotes:
“High quality…it takes the reader on a fascinating journey.”
“It’s also an entertaining read, which helps in getting to grips with the unpredictable nature of poltergeists.”
“Does what it says on the tin – and very successfully.”
The full review can be read here, courtesy of the reviewer, Mandy Collins of www.spookyisles.com, and of the peerless Fortean Times.
The estimable Tom Ruffles of the Society for Psychical Research has just posted a fine review of Poltergeist over Scotland on the SPR’s website. You can find it here or in the reviews section of this very website. Here’s a taste:
“It seems odd that nobody had thought of the idea before, but surprisingly Geoff Holder is the first person to compile a history of Scottish poltergeists…. This is an excellent package relevant to anybody interested in poltergeists, not only those which occurred in Scotland. Holder employs his trademark humour and takes an open-minded, sympathetic, but critical view of the phenomena he describes, making this a useful, and long overdue, collection.
My thanks to Tom and the SPR for permission to reproduce the review.
Kathleen Cronie of Mostly Ghostly Investigations (www.mostlyghostly.org) has just penned a very kind review of Poltergeist over Scotland in the May 2013 edition of Dumfries & Galloway Life. Here’s an extract:
“The level of research and dedication to his subject is apparent on every page of Geoff’s fascinating book: a great tool for those with a passing interest as well as more serious paranormal researchers. Geoff writes with a unique and entertaining style, providing lots of helpful nuggets for the paranormal enthusiast, such as source materials and where possible, the historical or cultural context of each case. Poltergeists are clearly one of the most challenging spirit types to define, but Geoff has given a valuable insight into the subject and the numerous behaviours associated with these mystifying entities.”