Guy Lyon Playfair

GUY LYON PLAYFAIR (1935–2018) began his writing career in Brazil, contributing to The Economist, Time, Business Week and the Associated Press, also spending four years in the press section of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). He then joined the research institute founded by Brazil’s leading parapsychologist, Hernani Guimarães Andrade, and began to explore the “other side” of Brazilian life as he described in his first book The Flying Cow, which became an international bestseller. He returned to London and published eleven books on a variety of subjects, including poltergeists (This House is Haunted) and hypnosis (If This Be Magic). His most recent book was Twin Telepathy (3rd edition, 2012) in which he summarises 15 years of research into this hitherto neglected subject. He was a council member of the Society for Psychical Research and frequent contributor to its Journal.