Andrew MacKenzie (writer)

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

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

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.