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British nonfiction writer and ghost hunter
Robert Thurston Hopkins
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British nonfiction writer and ghost hunter
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Robert Thurston Hopkins (1884-1958) was a British writer and ghost hunter.
Hopkins wrote biographical works on Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. He also wrote books on the English countryside.
Hopkins was a ghost hunter known for his books on ghosts. He described his experiences in his book Adventures with Phantoms (1946). He claimed to have encountered the ghost of a hanged man in a woodland near Burwash on two occasions in the 1930s.
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- Oscar Wilde: A Study of the Man and His Work (1913)
- War and the Weird (1916)
- Kipling's Sussex (1921)
- Rudyard Kipling, a Character Study: Life, Writings and Literary Landmarks (1921)
- H. G. Wells: Personality, Character, Topography (1922)
- Thomas Hardy's Dorset (1922)
- Rudyard Kipling's World (1925)
- The Kipling Country (1925)
- The Literary Landmarks of Devon & Cornwall (1926)
- Old English Mills and Inns (1927)
- This London: Its Taverns, Haunts and Memories (1927)
- London Pilgrimages (1928)
- In Search of English Windmills (1931)
- Old Windmills of England (1931)
- Life and death at the Old Bailey (1935)
- Moated Houses of England (1935)
- Adventures with Phantoms (1946)
- The Heart of London (1951)
- Ghosts Over England (1953)
- Cavalcade of Ghosts (1956)
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