Andrew Carr MacKenzie

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Andrew MacKenzie

Andrew Carr MacKenzie (1911–2001) was a journalist, novelist and parapsychologist from New Zealand.[1]

He started a journalistic career and worked between 1928 and 1938 for The Evening Post of Wellington. He later moved from New Zealand to England where he became a columnist for Kemsley Newspapers.

MacKenzie was a writer of detective stories. He was vice president of the Society for Psychical Research and has been described as a leading researcher in the field of psychical research in the 1970s.[2] He died at his home in Hove, East Sussex in 2001.

Publications[edit]

Fiction

Police Superintendent series Branigan

  • The House at the Estuary (1948)
  • Search in the Dark (1948)
  • Splash of Red (1949)
  • Whisper If You Dare! (1950)
  • The Man Who Wanted to Die (1951)
  • Point of a Gun (1951)

Nicholas Cornish detective series

  • Always Fight Back (1955)
  • Three Hours to Hang (1955)
  • A Grave Is Waiting (1957)
  • The Reaching Hand (1957)
  • Shadow of a Spy (1958)
  • A Man From the Past (1958)
  • The Missile (1959)

Non-fiction

  • The Unexplained: Some Strange Cases In Psychical Research (1966)
  • Frontiers of The Unknown: The Insights of Psychical Research (1968)
  • Apparitions and Ghosts: A Modern Study (1971)
  • A Gallery of Ghosts: An Anthology of Reported Experience (1973)
  • The Riddle of The Future: A Study of Modern Precognition (1974)
  • Dracula Country: Travels and Folk Beliefs in Romania (1977)
  • Voting in Local Elections In New Zealand (1978)
  • Hauntings and Apparitions: An Investigation of The Evidence (1982)
  • Romanian Journey (1983)
  • The History of Transylvania (1983)
  • A Concise History of Romania (1985)
  • Archaeology in Romania (1986)
  • The Seen and the Unseen (1987)
  • Music in Black Age (1992)
  • Adventures in Time: Encounters with The Past (1997)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Xiong, Jesse Hong. (2010). The Outline of Parapsychology. University Press of America. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-7618-4945-2
  2. ^ Dash, Mike. (2011). "Three 1950s Youths in a Medieval Plague Village". Retrieved 2015-10-07.