Jason Goodwin

Fear of little men

That Sherlock Holmes’s creator should have been duped by two young girls and their hoax photographs shows his desperation to believe in the ‘Other Side’

  • Magical Folk

    eds. Sikon Young and Cery Houlbrook

    Gibson Square, pp. 256

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