The Witch of Lime Street
The Witch of Lime Street

Author: David Jaher

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0307451062

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In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a controversial contest, sponsored by Scientific American. Her supernatural gifts beguiled four of the judges. There was only one left to convince ... the acclaimed escape artist, Harry Houdini. Jaher captures their electric public rivalry and the competition that brought them into each other's orbit.

The Quest
The Quest

Author: Stanley Brown

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1628388838

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In the magical woodland realm, two lovers from two races, Prince Caer of the woodland elves and Princess Andra of the woodland dwarfs, are forced to take a quest and seek the counsel of the mythical Old Ones after their parents forbade them to marry, believing that the princess may never conceive an heir since the couple come from different races. Together with the prince’s fearsome personal guards who call themselves the Companions, and a huge ax-wielding dwarf named Taydon, the princess’s sworn protector, they journey through mystical lands filled with beguiling fairies, flesh-eating goblins, and blood-thirsty vines in a journey that would test the group’s loyalty and resolve, and the young couple’s love. And just when they thought they had survived it all, they unknowingly attract sinister company. Lurking unseen in the shadows, the gruesome creature finds the scent of the lovely young princess irresistible. The Quest takes fantasy to a whole new level in a deeply entrancing story of young love, friendship, and breaking age-old boundaries.

The Man from Beyond: A Novel
The Man from Beyond: A Novel

Author: Gabriel Brownstein

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2005-09-17

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0393082385

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From the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, a debut novel featuring Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is April 1922. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in New York on a spiritualist crusade. To packed houses at Carnegie Hall, he displays photographs of ghosts and spirits; of female mediums bound and gagged, ectoplasmic goo emerging from their bodies. In the newspapers, he defends the powers of the mysterious Margery, one of the most famous mediums of the day. His good friend Harry Houdini is a skeptic, and when Doyle claims Margery's powers are superior to Houdini's, the magician goes on the attack. Into this mix of spirit-chasing celebrities enters Molly Goodman, a young reporter whose job is to cover the heated debate. As she wanders into this world of spooks and spirits, murder and criminal frauds, Molly discovers herself: her true love, her place in the world; even her relationship to her beloved dead brother, Carl.

The Edge of the Unknown
The Edge of the Unknown

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: FV Éditions

Published: 2017-01-16

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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In 1916 Arthur Conan Doyle stated his belief in Spiritualism. "The Edge of the Unknown", first published in 1930, is a collection of articles covering various aspects of this subject.

The Quest at Glastonbury
The Quest at Glastonbury

Author: William W. Kenawell

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Frederick Bligh Bond, Director of Excavations of Glastonbury Abbey until 1922, proclaimed his work was under the direction, through automatic writing, of those who inhabited that very site. Using divining rods he would search for buried treasure in the drains. This book is primarily concerned with presenting as many facets as possible of the life and work of Bond rather than with making judgements in psychic matters.

Science of the Seance
Science of the Seance

Author: Beth A. Robertson

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0774833521

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In the 1920s and ’30s, people gathered in darkened rooms to explore the paranormal through seances. They were motivated by grief, spiritual devotion, or a desire to be entertained. Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a small transnational group and their quest for objective knowledge of the supernatural, casting new light on how science, metaphysics, and the senses collided to inform gendered norms in this era. Robertson draws back the curtain to reveal a world inhabited by researchers, spirits, and spiritual mediums. Representing themselves as masters of the senses, untainted by the effeminized subjectivity of the body, psychical researchers in Canada, the UK, and the US believed that they could use machines and empirical methods to transform the seance into a laboratory of the spirits and a transnational empirical project. However, mediums and ghostly subjects could and did challenge their claims to scientific expertise and authority.