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Paul Tabori (1908-1974) was a Hungarian author, novelist, journalist and psychical researcher. Tabori was born on August 5, 1908, in Budapest, Hungary. He obtained a Ph.D. from Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm University and graduated as a Doctor of Economic and Political Science at Pazmany Peter University.〔("Paul Tabori - Senate House Library, University of London" ). Retrieved 27 October 2014.〕 He worked as a journalist in Hungary and London. Tabori was the literary executor for the Harry Price estate, he also wrote a biography of Price.〔("Paul Tabori (1908-1974)" ). (2001). Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Retrieved 27 October 2014.〕 Tabori was the vice-president of The Ghost Club for a number of years until his death.〔Underwood, Peter. (1983). ''No Common Task: The Autobiography of a Ghost-Hunter''. Harrap. p. 154〕 He died on November 9, 1974.〔 ==Psychical Research== In ''The Art of Folly'' (1961), Tabori included a chapter that documented the fraud of various spiritualist mediums. Stephen Potter in a review wrote the book "gives us one of the best brief accounts I have ever read of the scientific examination of the claims of spiritualists, and the delusions of such great men as Oliver Lodge and Conan Doyle".〔Potter, Stephen. (1961). ''Frailties of Humankind. Review of The Art of Folly, by Paul Tabori''. The Saturday Review, July 22. p. 27〕 Tabori and Peter Underwood in their book ''Ghosts of Borley'' (1973) wrote they believed "some of the phenomena were genuine" at the Borley Rectory.〔Hall, Trevor H. (1985). ''A Note on Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England''. In Paul Kurtz. ''A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology''. Prometheus Books. pp. 327-338. ISBN 0-87975-300-5〕 The researcher Trevor H. Hall criticized Tabori and Underwood for selective reporting. According to Hall the alleged paranormal phenomena from the rectory were the result of natural causes such as various creaks heard from the movement of rats or the flying of bats in the house. Pranks such a local village boys throwing stones at the house, or tramps trying to keep warm by lighting small fires in the rectory.〔 Piet Hein Hoebens with Marcello Truzzi evaluated some psychic detective cases in prewar Germany that were featured in Tabori's ''Crime and the Occult'' (1974), concluding the cases had been misreported.〔Hoebens, Piet Hein; Truzzi, Marcello. (1985). ''Reflections on Psychic Sleuths''. In Paul Kurtz. ''A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology''. Prometheus Books. pp. 631-643. ISBN 0-87975-300-5〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Tabori」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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