author
J. W. (John William) Harris
b. 1849
A turn-of-the-century writer who explored ghost stories with a skeptical, investigative bent, and also wrote devotional work from an evangelical perspective.
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Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
by J. W. (John William) Harris
About the author
John William Harris was born in 1849. He is credited as the author of Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men, first published in 1901, a book that looks at reported hauntings and unusual mental experiences in a more analytical than sensational way.
Other catalog and bookselling records also link him to religious writing, including God's Plan and Tears and Triumphs: The Life Story of a Pastor-Evangelist. Taken together, those works suggest a writer whose interests ranged from psychic and psychological questions to practical Christian faith.
Reliable biographical detail about his personal life appears to be scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember him mainly through the small body of books published under his name.