Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Edwardian
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Ghastly
Ghost stories
Ghosts
Ghouls
Horror
Horror anthologies
Seance
Spirits
Spiritualism
Summoning
Tales
Victorian
Weird
Product details
- ISBN 9780712355919
- Dimensions: 130 x 190mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2024
- Publisher: British Library Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Through the electric silence around the seance table, the rapping of an unknown hand spells out a horrible revelation. A posthumous journey through the spirit realm strips bare the mind of an avowed sceptic. A medium performing one last seance finds themselves in the cold clutches of a woeful spirit. In the mid-nineteenth century, public fascination with spiritualism surged, bringing forth a new literary craze for stories of ghost and demon summonings and communications with the dead via a medium. Reviving a thrilling host of these spectral narratives from the birth of the movement through to its last days of popularity in the twentieth century and featuring stories by authors from Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie, this new collection invites you to a seat around the table, at the fragile threshold between the mortal world and the chilling realms of the dead.
Emily Vincent is a researcher and writer based at the University of Birmingham, whose specialisms include spiritualism, occult detection, nineteenth-century ghost stories, and pandemics in Victorian literature.
