Servants of the Supernatural: The Night Side of the Victorian Mind by Antonio Melechi

Servants of the Supernatural: The Night Side of the Victorian Mind

Antonio Melechi

290 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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Born of the so-called Victorian 'pseudo science' of mesmerism (aptly described by Ambrose Bierce as Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage, and asked incredulity to dinner'), the séance enjoyed a late nineteenth-century golden age ...

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