This is a true story about a paranormal experience. This book was published in 1974 by Hawthorne Books, Inc., New York. The book measures 5 ¾ inches by 8 ½ inches and contains 253 pages. The dust jacket shows signs of wear with a few chips and rips along the edges but it is in fair condition. The actual cover of the book itself is paper covered hard boards. The cover shows minor signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips or tears. The signature of a previous owner is inscribed on the inside front cover. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is good.

Excerpt - Dust Jacket:
It started out as a search for an apartment, changed to a ghost hunt, became a deeper, spiritual search that led through the occult and the esoteric philosophies, and concluded with Jan Bryant Bartell’s death a few weeks after she had completed this manuscript.

Although it often reads like a Gothic novel, Spindrift is not fiction. It is the true story of a haunting of a house or a person, only the reader can judge. But one thing is certain: when Jan Bartell moved from the first troubled house and into the second, so did the mysterious and frightening occurrences. And, as time went by, the haunting grew more and more macabre.

When it all began, Jan Bartell did not believe in a spirit world, a world she could not see. She simply loved antiques and old houses. When she found an apartment in a town house in New York’s Greenwich Village, on a quiet tree shaded street, her troubles began - and they did not let up for twelve years.

But, despite the strange shadows and unexplainable sounds that seemed to occur frequently, all was not terror and dread. Her fears were mixed with curiosity. She wanted to know what it was that seemed to clutch at her in the dark; she wanted to understand what it was that seemed to follow her as she moved about her apartment. So she began to investigate old books of mysterious and esoteric knowledge. She called upon famous mediums and professional ghost hunters to try to unlock doors.

And it came to her like the spindrift that sprays in the wake of a passing ship. Gradually, the spray from the psychic sea became more and more familiar to her and, like a game of Ten Little Indians, deaths began to occur in the house. The first to die was a dog, Jan’s own beloved Penelope. But, within twenty-four hours, she was to learn of the death of the first human tenant. Whether by heart attacks, suicide, or murder, the deaths came in rapid succession.

In terror, with nine little Indians gone, the Bartells moved far away from Greenwich Village. But the haunting folowed them. After the completion of Spindrift, Jan Bartell became the tenth.
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