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Harry Houdini on the mediums he investigated and exposed, the methods behind slate-writing, materialisation and the dark séance, and his friendship with Arthur Conan Doyle and how it ended. Shelved beside Doyle's fairy book on purpose.

SUBJECTSSpiritualismMediumsFraud
TAGS#houdini#mediums#seance#spiritualism#exposure

CONTENTS · 20

  1. 1MME. BISSON, MRS. FEILDING (TOMCHICK), AND MLLE. EVA 170 — KELLAR AND HOUDINI 224 — INTRODUCTION10 MIN
  2. 2PREFACE1 MIN
  3. 3A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS — CHAPTER I — THE FOUNDERS OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM18 MIN
  4. 4CHAPTER II — THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS20 MIN
  5. 5CHAPTER III — DANIEL DUNGLAS HOME12 MIN
  6. 6CHAPTER IV — PALLADINO17 MIN
  7. 7CHAPTER V — ANN O’DELIA DISS DEBAR14 MIN
  8. 8CHAPTER VI — DR. SLADE AND HIS SPIRIT SLATES23 MIN
  9. 9CONFESSION1 MIN
  10. 10CHAPTER VII — SLATE WRITING AND OTHER METHODS19 MIN
  11. 11CHAPTER VIII — SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY23 MIN
  12. 12CHAPTER IX — SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE29 MIN
  13. 13CHAPTER X — WHY ECTOPLASM?14 MIN
  14. 14CHAPTER XI — BY-PRODUCTS OF SPIRITUALISM13 MIN
  15. 15CHAPTER XII — INVESTIGATIONS--WISE AND OTHERWISE28 MIN
  16. 16CHAPTER XIII — HOW MEDIUMS OBTAIN INFORMATION13 MIN
  17. 17CHAPTER XIV — WHAT YOU MUST BELIEVE TO BE A SPIRITUALIST16 MIN
  18. 18CHAPTER XV — MAGICIANS AS DETECTORS OF FRAUD24 MIN
  19. 19CHAPTER XVI — CONCLUSION6 MIN
  20. 20APPENDIX13 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (A Magician Among the Spirits). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #66451). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.