I've been reading everything I can get my hands on by this man; he wrote - in their day- extremely popular books on the supernatural and folklore. Much was his own eccentric take on the subjects (he claimed to be a seer, and maybe he was). But he was also an extremely engaging writer. Even if you're not particularly interested in ghosts and fairies etc, through the lines you get a very interesting few glances at a time and place (he wrote in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras mainly in Britain and Ireland) in social terms.