In the Houses of Their Dead

The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits

By: Terry Alford

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet—and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning—in fact, it had been foretold.

In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president's fascination with Spiritualism, and to demonstrate how it linked him, uncannily, to the man who would kill him. Abraham Lincoln is usually seen as a rational, empirically minded man, yet as biographer Terry Alford reveals, he was also deeply superstitious and drawn to the irrational. Like millions of other Americans, including the Booths, Lincoln and his wife, Mary, suffered repeated personal tragedies, and turned for solace to Spiritualism, a new practice sweeping the nation that held that the dead were nearby and could be contacted by the living. Remarkably, the Lincolns and the Booths even used the same mediums, including Charles Colchester, a specialist in "blood writing" whom Mary first brought to her husband, and who warned the president after listening to the ravings of another of his clients, John Wilkes Booth.

©2022 Terry Alford (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

is it me?

it sounds like the narrator has a touch of laryngitis? wow...who let this guy do this?

Very Good!!

The topic and narration are excellent.
If your are a Lincoln history buff or neophyte --
this is a great story.