LEADER 02457nam 22003973 450 001 9910816085403321 005 20230629234241.0 010 $a1-78914-281-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011358434 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6269584 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6269584 035 $a(OCoLC)1181843202 035 $a(BIP)076944982 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011358434 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCalling the Spirits $eA History of Seances 210 1$aLondon :$cReaktion Books, Limited,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2020. 215 $a1 online resource (353 pages) 311 $a1-78914-280-6 327 $aCover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Summoning The Old Spirits -- 2. Early Necromancy -- 3. Darkness Across The Enlightenment And The Romantic Gothic -- 4. The Victorians And Spiritualism -- Or, The Seance Is Born -- 5. Wars And Ouija: Spiritualism In The Twentieth Century -- 6. How Universal Is The Seance? -- 7. The Modern Seance -- 8. (Why) Do We Need The Seance? -- References -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements. 330 8 $aFrom Halloween expert Morton, a level-headed and entertaining history of our desire and attempts to hold conversations with the dead.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 . . . ? 676 $a133.91 700 $aMorton$b Lisa$01604483 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816085403321 996 $aCalling the Spirits$93929346 997 $aUNINA