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Calling the Spirits

Name: Calling the Spirits
Brand: Reaktion Books
SKU: 9781789142808
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A History of Seances

Contributor(s): Lisa Morton Author Format: Hardback

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ISBN	9781789142808
Subtitle	A History of Seances
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Publication date	October 2020
Language	English
MRP	£25.00 GBP
Page count	352

Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism – when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born. Among our cast are the Fox sisters, teenagers surrounded by ‘spirit rappings’; Daniel Dunglas Home, the ‘greatest medium of all time’; Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose unlikely friendship was forged, then riven, by the afterlife; and Helen Duncan, the medium whose trial in 1944 for witchcraft proved more popular to the public than news about the war. The book also considers Ouija boards, modern psychics and paranormal investigations, and is illustrated with engravings, fine art (from beyond) and photographs. Hugely entertaining, it begs the question: is anybody there . . .?

Calling the Spirits

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Lisa Morton Author

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