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Calling the spirits : a history of seances / Lisa Morton.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
133.9 MORT	Adult Non Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781789142808 (hardback)
Name	Morton, Lisa, 1958- author.
Title	Calling the spirits : a history of seances / Lisa Morton.
Published	London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2020.
Published	©2020
Description	351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	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. A hugely entertaining contribution from the supernaturally adept Lisa Morton, Calling the Spirits begs the question: is anybody there . . . ?
Subjects	Seances -- History
Subjects	Spiritualism -- History
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Seances -- History . Spiritualism -- History . Authors: Morton, Lisa, 1958- .