Perrin, Lisa - The Secrets of the Séance Society
The Secrets of the Séance Society: Illustrated True Stories of Talking To the Dead
Lisa Perrin
9781797235622
2026, Chronicle Books
Hardcover met sprayed edges, 216blz., 25.4cm x 18.4cm
Engelstalig
A knock from the other side.
A cool breeze when all the windows are shut. The persistent, chilling tap-tap-tapping in the dead of night. The spirits are trying to get through.
Step into the shadow world of Spiritualism, where the living long to speak to the dead - and we long to listen. In this peculiar and lavishly illustrated compendium, artist and author Lisa Perring uncovers the secrets, scandals, and séances that captivated the nineteenth century and beyond.
Meet the Fox Sisters, whose experience being haunted by cryptic raps launched an entire movement - was there truly a body buried in their cellar? Witness the infamous feud between believer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and skeptic Harry Houdini. Take a seat at the séance table with Victorian mediums like Eva Carrière, who conjured ectoplasm and ghostly faces, and the Schneider brothers, whose sessions once featured a disembodied hand emerging to play a musical instrument.
This book is at once an eerie romp through the other side and a tool, complete with medium's manual and Ouija board. But be warned: the line between myth and reality is thin, and the dead may be closer than you think.
The séance has room for one more... join us, won't you?
€ 31,95