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The cruellest month
\"It's Easter, and on a glorious Spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead ... When Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surete du Quebec arrives the next morning, he faces an unusual crime scene. A seance in an old abandoned house has gone horrifically wrong and someone has been seemingly frightened to death. In idyllic Three Pines, terrible secrets lie buried, and even Gamache has something to hide. One of his own team is about to betray him. But how far will they go to ensure Gamache's downfall?\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Supernatural entertainments : Victorian spiritualism and the rise of modern media culture
In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism's rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed.
Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences.
Addressing the overlap between spiritualism's explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.
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The last séance : tales of the supernatural
\"For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Fantastic psychic visions, specters looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, a man who switches bodies with a cat--be sure to keep the light on whilst reading these tales\"-- Publisher's description.
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Calling the Spirits
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. A hugely entertaining contribution from the supernaturally adept Lisa Morton, Calling the Spirits begs the question: is anybody there . . . ?
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Midnight at Madame Leota's
\"Welcome foolish mortals, to the lonesome library of the Haunted Mansion. Return to the happiest haunt on earth for more terrifying tales from beyond the grave. But take caution--for when the clock strikes twelve, the most macabre medium of them all will establish contact with the other side, and ghastly ghosts will materialize. So read on, if you dare, but beware midnight at Madame Leota's!--Page [4] of cover.
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The Specter of the Indian
The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native
American spirit guides during the emergent years of American
Spiritualism. By pulling together cultural and political history;
the studies of religion, race, and gender; and the ghostly, Kathryn
Troy offers a new layer of understanding to the prevalence of
mystically styled Indians in American visual and popular culture.
The connections between Spiritualist print and contemporary Indian
policy provide fresh insight into the racial dimensions of social
reform among nineteenth-century Spiritualists. Troy draws
fascinating parallels between the contested belief of Indians as
fading from the world, claims of returned apparitions, and the
social impetus to provide American Indians with a means of
existence in white America. Rather than vanishing from national
sight and memory, Indians and their ghosts are shown to be ever
present. This book transports the readers into dimly lit parlor
rooms and darkened cabinets and lavishes them with detailed séance
accounts in the words of those who witnessed them. Scrutinizing the
otherworldly whisperings heard therein highlights the voices of
mediums and those they sought to channel, allowing the author to
dig deep into Spiritualist belief and practice. The influential
presence of Indian ghosts is made clear and undeniable.
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Treacherous is the night
\"It's not that Verity Kent doesn't sympathize with those eager to make contact with lost loved ones. After all, she once believed herself a war widow. But now that she's discovered Sidney is very much alive, Verity is having enough trouble connecting with her estranged husband, never mind the dead. Still, at a friend's behest, Verity attends a séance, where she encounters the man who still looms between her and Sidney--and a medium who channels a woman Verity once worked with in the Secret Service. Refusing to believe her former fellow spy is dead, Verity is determined to uncover the source of the spiritualist's top secret revelation. Then the medium is murdered--and Verity's investigation is suddenly thwarted. Even Secret Service agents she once trusted turn their backs on her. Undaunted, Verity heads to war-torn Belgium, with Sidney by her side. But as they draw ever closer to the danger, Verity wonders if she's about to learn the true meaning of till death do us part\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The specter of the Indian: race, gender, and ghosts in American sâeances, 1848-1890
The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native American spirit guides during the emergent years of American Spiritualism. By pulling together cultural and political history; the studies of religion, race, and gender; and the ghostly, Kathryn Troy offers a new layer of understanding to the prevalence of mystically styled Indians in American visual and popular culture. The connections between Spiritualist print and contemporary Indian policy provide fresh insight into the racial dimensions of social reform among nineteenth-century Spiritualists. Troy draws fascinating parallels between the contested belief of Indians as fading from the world, claims of returned apparitions, and the social impetus to provide American Indians with a means of existence in white America. Rather than vanishing from national sight and memory, Indians and their ghosts are shown to be ever present. This book transports the readers into dimly lit parlor rooms and darkened cabinets and lavishes them with detailed séance accounts in the words of those who witnessed them. Scrutinizing the otherworldly whisperings heard therein highlights the voices of mediums and those they sought to channel, allowing the author to dig deep into Spiritualist belief and practice. The influential presence of Indian ghosts is made clear and undeniable.
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Digital Séance: Fabricated Encounters with the Dead
Digital afterlife is becoming increasingly possible due to advancements in VR, deepfake, and AI technologies. The use of computational photography for mourning and commemoration has been re-integrated into practices of remembrance, farewell, continuity, and disengagement. Two case studies, the Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony and the TV production Meeting You, are analyzed to explore these new possibilities. We show how photography’s new affordances enable interaction while maintaining its essence as a representation of reality and argue that this socio-technological transformation habituates contemporary practices of mourning and commemoration, adjusting images to serve the individual needs and interests of the bereaved and the community.
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Postprandial Peirce: A Final Talk: A Special Séance with Peirce: His Spirit Summoned for an Entertaining Interview
This is the transcript of a public conversation held by a medium with Peirce's spiritual consciousness following an excellent dinner in the Delmonico Room at the Hotel Fauchères in the evening of April 19, 2019, the 105th anniversary of Peirce's death. The transcript testifies to the continued reality of metaphysics in the afterlife, where one encounters the ultimate community of inquiry. It provides a number of revelations soundly supported by intricate semiotic distinctions. It also sets the methodological ground for a new subdiscipline of metaphysics open to a wide range of creative applications.
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