Drawing on notes made after real sittings and his reports to the American Psychical Society, Garland recounts sixteen years of investigating mediums, with names and characters disguised. A circle of sceptics and believers debates trumpets that speak, moving tables and messages on sealed slates, testing each phenomenon for fraud.
A curious, candid record of what educated Americans of 1908 made of spiritualism, by the author of Main-Travelled Roads. Download the free EPUB.