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I see dead people. While it might sound cool, I can assure you, it's not. The dead are even bigger assholes than the living. I learned at a young age to be invisible. Even breathing wrong could set my father off. The beatings became progressively worse as I got older, and I feared I wouldn't survive to see my eighteenth birthday. So I plotted my escape, and no one was more surprised that it worked than me!

“Fascinating . . . a serious, wide-ranging study of all the magical, mystical, and spiritual movements that have arisen and influenced American history in often-surprising ways.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book World “A treasure trove.”—HuffPost From its inception...

Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance's sister, the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance; perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life. So begins this brilliant and gripping novel, a dark mystery set in late-Victorian England.

“Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.”—Tana French, New York Times Bestselling Author From the Queen of Suspense, an all-new collection of her spookiest and most sinister stories, including an Agatha...

Dive into the mysterious intersections of ghostly phenomena, Gothic fiction, and the rise of spiritualism during the 19th century—a time when séances, spirits, and mysticism captivated public and private imaginations alike. As scientific progress and industrialization upended traditional beliefs, Victorian writers turned to the otherworldly to make sense of a rapidly transforming world. This book traces how their engagement with death, the afterlife, and the metaphysical infused literature with haunting beauty and psychological depth. Blending biography, cultural history, and literary ...

A beautifully mysterious guide to conducting seances and communing with the spirits in our conscious and unconscious lives. As long as people have lived, they have longed for wisdom and comfort from those who have died. In The Book of Séances, artist, author, and witch Claire Goodchild takes...

London, 1895. Former Baker Street Irregular Tim Badger is determined to follow in the footsteps of his mentor, Sherlock Holmes, by opening his own consulting detective agency with his partner, Benjamin Watson. The intrepid duo are ready to make a name for themselves . . . if only they had clients! Their luck changes when Sherlock recommends his protégés to Thomas Brent. Brent is eager to find out who killed his master, Horace Quinn, during a séance. What was Quinn desperately trying to find out from his deceased business partner, Stephen Latimer, before he was stabbed?

"An atmospheric and evocative whodunnit steeped in suspense, mystery, and illusion." —Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about two daring...

Apport: The manifestation or creation of objects by supernatural or unknown means. How do you explain objects falling out of thin air? How is it possible that objects manifest during seances? Are we receiving things from other planes of existence or the spirit world? Is someone or something from some other reality playing tricks on us? This book explores the bizarre subject of apports, objects moving, manifesting, and disappearing by themselves. Like a trickster in the night, they occur without any explanation. The author delves into the strange world of physical mediumship, psychics, ...

A visitor to Baker Street comes amid the rains of March in 1889, speaking of the shadowy world of séances and mediumship, subjects about which the ever-rational Holmes has little patience, nor is he any more approving when an accusation is made concerning his role in a past case that saw a convicted murderer hanged, yet when events unfold to draw Holmes to a manor in Wiltshire where the British Séance Society makes its headquarters, he soon finds himself caught up in a case that appears to Watson to have the involvement of the paranormal as its most likely explanation. It’s all inside ...

Book three continues the Twisted Sisters' magical misadventures.... Marie Leveau ups the anty while the sisters balance cocktail parties, seances, second-line parades, and possessions.

THE SÉANCE SITUATION A Between Agency Mystery Two murders. Forty-seven years apart. One deadly secret that refuses to stay buried. When paranormal investigators Emily Hayes and Juni Quimby arrive at the historic Bramblewick Inn to investigate a decades-old cold case, they expect the usual: creaky floors, mysterious shadows, and maybe a genuine ghost sighting for their podcast. What they don't expect is a fresh corpse. Hours after a séance meant to contact spirits from the past, one of the residents takes an unexpected dive from a third-floor balcony. The police call it an accident. Emily ...

Peter Aykroyd spent his childhood watching his family’s parlor séances through the crack of a basement door. Here, for the first time, Aykroyd tells the strange and delightful story that inspired his son, Dan, to make the mega-hit Ghostbusters. Part history, part family legend, A History of Ghosts starts in 1848 in upstate New York, where the spiritualist craze first began....

A séance gone wrong. A child lost forever. Something evil answered the call. When a grieving father’s desperate bid to contact his deceased child goes horribly wrong, Nora scrambles to contain the fallout. But her fraudulent psychic career is the last thing she needs to worry about. Something was unleashed. Something vicious. Racing to make amends for the catastrophic failure in the parlor, she arrives too late. The man is dead. Adopting the man’s orphaned cat provides a path to redemption. And a fragile comfort for her lonely daughter.

Six years ago, Gregory and Georgette Hampton’s adopted daughter, Emily, fell to her death from the staircase of their home. The aftermath of the tragic accident nearly destroyed their marriage and threatened to derail their surviving son’s bright future, but with the help of a parish rector, they recovered from the senseless death. But now Gregory Hampton appears at 221b Baker street. His wife has become convinced that a medium has spoken to their daughter’s spirit from beyond the grave. His wife is becoming increasingly unstable, and he has come to ask Holmes to expose the medium for...

Only A Thought Away offers readers compelling evidence of the continuity of life and our enduring connection with those who have crossed over. Through personal stories from gallery readings and paranormal investigations, Richard Moschella guides you on a unique journey into the realm of spirit communication. Emphasizing that mediumship is a natural ability within everyone—not a special gift—this book is designed to support your own spiritual development. Drawing from decades of personal experience and inspirational stories, Richard reveals that our loved ones are always just a thought ...

A woman wearing a black veil convenes a seance. A magician puts a volunteer into a trance. A fortune-teller leans over a crystal ball. Everyone knows what Victorian mysticism looks like because our modern imagery, language, and practice of magic borrows heavily from the Victorians. But we have little understanding of its spiritual, cultural, and historical foundations.

When Ruth Townsend discovers Tessa Martin’s body in an abandoned factory, sprawled across a Ouija board, she does the responsible thing and calls 911. But by the time Sheriff Blevins arrives, the girl’s body has vanished. Blevins is convinced that Tessa is playing an elaborate hoax. But Ruth and her daughter, Cassie, know better. They both saw the body.

TDSi: The Digital Séance initiative is an unwavering, incrementally staged showcase of walking the spirit communication walk with the fully supported data driven act of talking the spirit communication talk. With much of the paranormal field’s cutting edge research seemingly laser focused on technology, Ron Yacovetti looks to broaden the individual’s paradigm and realized field of vision by chronicling in lockstep, correlative theories and concepts rooted in philosophy, consciousness and social anthropology. These academically fueled modalities make the undeniable point that there is ...

Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret: she’s finished her novel and is bravely mailing the manuscript to a publisher. Beryl also has a secret: as thanks for solving a case, the American adventuress has been gifted an airplane. After swooping over the fields and hedgerows of Walmsley Parva, livestock scattering beneath her, she flamboyantly lands the plane on the village green, prompting a startled Edwina to consider a stiff gin fizz. Beryl’s aircraft is not the only disruption of village peace. Miss Dinsdale, a psychic medium, has started holding séances.