Mediums rare
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Baltimore, Md. : Cemetery Dance Publications, 2000.
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1st ed.
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124 pages ; 24 cm.
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Prolific screenwriter and genre novelist Richard Matheson has long maintained an interest in all matters relating to parapsychology, telepathy, ESP and other paranormal activity. His brief and elegantly printed new volume amounts to a lightly fictionalized history as well as quick, evocative episodes of paranormal activity from Greek antiquity all the way through renowned American psychic Edgar Cayce. Most of the episodes in this book depict the famous seers, mediums and performers of the nineteenth-century, whose feats Matheson clearly admires. Margaret and Kate Fox, aged ten and seven, in 1848 convinced their parents and many other Americans that they were in touch with ghosts in a haunted house. (Matheson notes that the adult Margaret recanted, explaining how she herself produced the ghosts' mysterious rapping noises: he believes the recantation fake, arranged by the sisters' enemies.) Civil War-era medium Nettie Colburn instructed President Lincoln to visit his troops; Matheson thinks she channeled the deceased statesman Daniel Webster. New England mediums "Mrs. Leonard and Mrs. Piper" underwent elaborate tests in an effort to prove that their psychic connections were in fact genuine; William James, for one, was impressed. Harry Houdini used his great stage-magic to unmask a bevy of psychic frauds; Matheson describes some, then discusses what he believes are genuine paranormal experiences that are linked to Houdini. Matheson's afterword repeats his confident claims that the powers he describes are very real and he pleads for a serious study of them. Fans of parapsychology or of Matheson's other works should enjoy this lively exploration of great topics that inform the genre and have become legendary.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Matheson, R. (2000). Mediums rare. Baltimore, Md., Cemetery Dance Publications.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013. 2000. Mediums Rare. Baltimore, Md., Cemetery Dance Publications.

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Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013, Mediums Rare. Baltimore, Md., Cemetery Dance Publications, 2000.

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Matheson, Richard. Mediums Rare. Baltimore, Md., Cemetery Dance Publications, 2000.

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