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Volume 1: Spiritualism: Health, Race, and Human Variation
Edited by Christine Ferguson
1.‘What is Man Anatomically and Physiologically Considered’ and excerpt from ‘The Philosophy ofDisease’ in The Great Harmonia, Volume 1 (Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1851), pp. 13-42; 128-141.
ANDREW JACKSON
2.‘Of Births’, ‘Practical Applications: ‘The Electric Motor’’, and ‘The Electrical Motor and Its Uses’in The Educator: Being Suggestions, Theoretical and Practical, Designed to Promote Man-Culture and Integral Reform, With a View to the Ultimate Establishments of a Divine Social State on Earth (Boston: Office of Practical Spiritualists, 1857), pp. 236-257.
JOHN MURRAY SPEAR and A. E. NEWTON
3.‘The Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery’ in Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery (New York: Mason Brothers, 1861), pp. 3-11.
WILLIAM H. HOLCOMBE
4.‘Amalgamation and Human Hybrids’, ‘Temperaments and Human Offspring’, ‘A Divine Law Against Polygamy’, and ‘Extinction of Red and Black Man’ in Answers to the Ever-Recurring Questions from the People (New York: A.J. Davis & Col., 1862), pp. 277-279; 282-284; 289-297; 357-360.
ANDREW JACKSON
5. Excerpt from Interior Causes of the War: The Nation Demonized and the President a Spirit Rapper (New York: M. Doolady, 1863), pp. 1-9; 25-47
A CITIZEN OF OHIO
6. Lecture XIII: ‘Different Attractions of Different Temperaments; or, How to Avoid the Transient Union and Secure the Permanent Marriage’ in The Great Harmonia, Volume 4 (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1864).
ANDREW JACKSON
7. ‘First Causes of Character’, ‘Intellectual anad Moral Qualities Transmissable from Parents to Children’, ‘Connection of the Natural Birth with the Spiritual; Marriage, Etc.’,‘Possibilities and Impossibilities of Human Perfection, As Based Upon the Law of Hereditary Descent’, and ‘Laws and Conditions of Sexual Intercourse, Parentage, Etc.’ in A View at the Foundations: Or, First Causes of Character, As Operative Before Birth, from Hereditary and Spiritual Sources (Boston: William Spencer, 1865), pp. 9-18; 19-32; 47-64; 65-103; 117-145.
WOODBURY M. FERNALD
8. Excerpt from After Death; or, Disembodied Man [Being the Sequel to Dealings with the Dead]. 2nd edition (Boston: P.B. Randolph, 1868).
PASCHAL BEVERLY RANDOLPH
9. ‘Seance No. 14: Home channels eugenic advice under control of Doctor Elliotson’, in Experiencesin Spiritualism (Privately Published: 1870).
VISCOUNT ADARE
10. Seance Transcripts from the Henry Louis Rey Circle, New Orleans.
i. Mars 25, 1869, ‘Esclavage Physique et Moral’ par Lamenais, Followed by translation of transcript by Grandjean
ii. Du 5 Avril, 1869, ‘L’EsclavageMoral’ par Henri Rey (Signed Vincent De Paul), Followed by translation of transcript by Grandjean
iii. Du 14 Juillet, 1870, par Henry Clay, Followed by translation of transcript by Granjean
iv. Le 28 Juillet, 1870, par De Brugs/De Burgs?
v. Du 26 Octobre, 1870, Poem ‘Black in the Land of America’, signed ‘A Black Man’
vi. Du 9 Novembre, 1870, Message on racial integration of schools, signed ‘W.R. Meadows’
vii. 4 Juillet, 1871, Message from Washington on Black Emancipation
viii. 8 February 1872, Grandjean translation of message from John Brown
ix. 17 December 1872, Grandjean translation of spirit message from Indian spirit Poho
x. 15 March 1873 Message on the Spirit of Body, but Lamenais
xi. 6 December 1873, Message on the meaning of Deformites and the Appearance of the Post-Life Body. Signed ‘A Brother’
xii. 4 September 1874, Message from Abraham Lincoln
11. Excerpt from ‘Survival in Culture’, in Primitive Culture (London: John Murray, 1871), pp. 101-108; 120-144.
EDWARD B. TYLOR
12. Man in Search of his Soul During Fifty Thousand Years, and How He Found It! (London: Villa Bordighiera, 1887).
GERALD MASSEY
13.‘Appendix to Preface’ [Indian Spirit Poetry] and assorted messages on race and the spirit body, in Flashes of Light from the Spirit Land (Boston: William White & Co, 1872), pp. 20-27; 68-72; 298-300; 321-323; 367.
MRS. J. H. CONANT
14.‘Ravalette’ in The Wonderful Story of Ravalette (Toledo, OH: Corson Randolph, 1876), pp. 126-143.
P.B. RANDOLPH
15.‘On Indian Spirits’, excerpt from ‘On Spiritualism in the Slaveholding South’, and excerpt from‘On Indian Spirits at St. Paul’s Cathedral’ in Autobiography of Emma Hardinge Britten (Manchester: John Heywood, 1900), pp. 129-141; 142-150; 210-212.
16.‘The Choice of Parents’ in Without Prejudice (London: 1902), pp. 194-207.
ISRAEL ZANGWILL
17.‘The Ethics of Mental Healing’ in Mental Healing and Bodily Welfare (London: The Power-Book Co., 1914), pp. 5-24.
W. J. COLVILLE
Volume 2: Spiritualism in Literature
Edited by Patricia Pulham
Part 1: Spiritualism in Poetry
18.‘Mr Sludge “The Medium”’ in Dramatis Personae (London: Chapman and Hall, 1864), pp. 171-236
ROBERT BROWNING
19.‘A Tale of Eternity’ in A Tale of Eternity and Other Poems (London: Strahan & Co., 1870), pp. 1-110
GERALD MASSEY
Part 2: Spiritualism in the Novel
20. Extracts from Intuition (Hartford: F. Kingman, 1870), pp. 9-20; 208-27; 238-58
FRANCES KINGMAN
21. Extract from The Bostonians (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1886: Book 1: Chapter VIII), pp. 57-64
HENRY JAMES
22. Extracts from Flames: A London Phantasy (London: William Heinemann, 1897), pp. 1-31; 57-61; 63-82; 124-144; 198-203; 227-241; 335-340; 352-372; 396-414
ROBERT HICHENS
Part 3: Communing Spirits
23.‘The Loved Shade’ in Tales of the Spirit World (London: C.H. Clarke, 1868), pp. 64-72
JOSIAH HONE
24.‘The Daughter of the Stars: A Psychological Romance’ and ‘A Speculative Spirit’ in Bound Together: Tales (London: Remington & Co., 1884), pp. 225-54; 314-28
HUGH CONWAY [F. J. Fargus]
Part 4: Seances and Clairvoyance
25.‘Playing with Fire’, Round the Fire Stories (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908), pp. 129-148
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
26.‘In the Seance Room’, New Ghost Stories (London: Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co., 1893), pp. 67-88
LETTICE GALBRAITH
27.‘Psychic Stories: Introductory’ and ‘Pepi: Told by a Clairvoyante’ in Northern Lights (London: George Redway, 1899), pp. 9-23; 120-38
ELIZABETH D’ESPERANCE
28. Extracts from There is No Death. New York: National Book Company, 1891: pp. 15-22; 73-86
FLORENACE MARRYAT
29. Extracts from The Land of Mist (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1926), pp. 9-18;.19-32; 77-97; 280-82
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Part 5: Spirit Writings
30.“Love” by “Shakspeare” [sic], “For A’ That” by “Burns” and “Resurrexi” by “Poe”, in Poems from the Inner Life (Boston: William White and Company, 1864), pp. 92-96; 97-98 pp. 104-108
LIZZIE DOTEN
31. Extract from The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Complete (Brattleboro. Vermont: T.P. James. 1873), pp. 218-222
THOMAS POWER JAMES
32. A Packet for Ezra Pound (Dublin: Cuala Press), pp. 1-37
W. B. YEATS
Part 6: Hauntings
33.“The Apple-Tree Table; Or, Original Spiritual Manifestations” , in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1922 [1856]: pp. 9-51
HERMAN MELVILLE
34.“The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain”. A Strange Story; The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain; Zanoni (London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1864[1859]), pp. 325-343
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
35.‘Murder will out’ and ‘Haunted to Death’ in Tales of the Spirit World (London: C.H. Clarke, 1868), pp. 3-19
JOSIAH HONE
36.‘Earthbound’, Fraser’s Magazine, Volume 1, January 1880, pp. 18-44
MARGARET OLIPHANT
37.‘Amour Dure: Passages from the diary of Spiridion Trepka’, Hauntings: Fantastic Stories (London: William Heinemann, 1890), pp. 3-37
VERNON LEE
Volume 3: Spiritualism, Science and Technology
Edited by Rosario Arias
Part 1: Spiritualism and Science before Psychic Research
38.‘Noted Media’ in Sights and Sounds: The Mystery of the Day, Comprising an Entire History of the American “Spirit” Manifestations (London: Thomas Bosworth, 1853), 55-85.
HENRY SPICER
39.‘Electrobiology and Mesmerism’, Quarterly Review 93.3 (1853): 501-557.
WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER
40.‘Plates 1, 2, 4’ in Experimental Investigations of the Spirit Manifestations, Demonstrating the Existence of Spirits and Their Communion with Mortals (New York: Partridge & Brittan, 1855), n.p.
ROBERT HARE
41. Extract from ‘The Author’s Discovery of His Powers as a Medium’ in Experimental Investigations of the Spirit Manifestations, Demonstrating the Existence of Spirits and Their Communion with Mortals (New York: Partridge & Brittan, 1855), pp. 167-68.
ROBERT HARE
42. Extract from The Educator: Being Suggestions, Theoretical and Practical, Designed to Promote Man-Culture and Integral Reform, with a view to the Ultimate Establishment of a Divine Social State on earth Comprised in A Series of Revealments From Organized Associations In the Spirit-Life, through John Murray Spear (Boston: Office of Practical Spiritualists 1857), p. 240
ALONZO E. NEWTON
43.‘The Case of Scientific Men, and Men of Modern Churches’, The Spiritual Times: A Weekly Organ Devoted to the Facts, Philosophy, and Practical Uses of Modern Spiritualism, 6 January 1866, pp. 1-2.
WILLIAM HOWITT
44. The Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural (London: F. Farrah, 1866), pp: 1-20.
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
45. Extracts from Planchette, or the Despair of Science. Being a Full Account of Modern Spiritualism, Its Phenomena and the Various Theories Regarding It. With a Survey of French Spiritism. 1869. (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887), pp. iii-viii; 1-15
EPES SARGENT
46.‘About Scientific Spiritualism’, Medium and Daybreak, 1, 1870, pp. 201-202.
JAMES BURNS
47.‘The Scientific Investigation of Spiritualism’, The Spiritual Magazine, 1 January 1871, pp. 3-17.
EMMA HARDINGE
48. Extract from Apparitions: An Essay Explanatory of Old Facts and a New Theory, 1873, pp. 24-27
NEWTON CROSLAND
49. Extracts from A Defence of Modern Spiritualism (Boston: Colby & Rich, 1874), pp. 5-25.
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
50.‘Spiritualism Viewed by the Light of Modern Science’ in Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism. Reprinted from The Quarterly Journal of Science (London: J. Burns, 1874), pp. 1-8
WILLIAM CROOKES
51.‘Experimental Investigation of a New Force’ Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism. Reprinted from The Quarterly Journal of Science (London: J. Burns, 1874), pp. 9-19.
WILLIAM CROOKES
52.‘Psychic Force and Modern Spiritualism’ in Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism. Reprinted from The Quarterly Journal of Science (London: J. Burns, 1874), pp. 45-72.
WILLIAM CROOKES
53.‘Miss Florence Cook’s Mediumship’ in Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism. Reprinted from The Quarterly Journal of Science (London: J. Burns, 1874), pp.102-107.
William Crookes
54.‘Electrical Experiments With Miss Cook While Entranced’, Spiritualist, 4, 1874, pp. 134-5.
CROMWELL F. VARLEY
55.‘Spiritualism and Men of Science’, Spiritualist, 9, 1876, pp. 21-22.
CHARLES CARLETON MASSEY
56.‘Weighing A Medium During the Production of Spiritual Manifestations’, Spiritualist, 13, 3 May 1878, pp. 210-216.
WILLIAM HARRISON
57.‘Variations in the Weight of a Medium during Manifestations’, Spiritualist, 13, 17 May 1878, pp. 235.
WILLIAM HARRISON
Part 2: Spiritualism, Science and Psychic Research
58. Introduction to Phantasms of the Living Volume 1 (London: Rooms of the Society for Psychical Research, 1886), pp. xxxv-lxxi.
EDMUND GURNEY, FREDRIC W. H. MYERS AND FRANK PODMORE
59.‘The Fallibility of Science’, Medium and Daybreak, 24, 1893, p. 199.
60.‘Experience of Unusual Physical Phenomena Occurring in the Presence of an Entranced Person (Eusapia Paladino)’, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 6, 1893-94, pp. 306-60.
OLIVER LODGE
61.‘Sir William Crookes’ Provisional Explanation of Telepathy?Harmony with Natural Law’ in The Widow’s Mite and Other Psychic Phenomena (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1904), pp. 518-20.
ISAAC K FUNK
62.‘The Finding of ‘The Widow’s Mite,’ and Similar Psychic Phenomena: The View of Leading Psychologists’ in The Widow’s Mite and Other Psychic Phenomena (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1904), pp. 155-184.
ISAAC K FUNK
63.‘Professor Hyslop Obtains What He Believes to be Strong Proof of Personal Identity’ in The Widow’s Mite and Other Psychic Phenomena (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1904), pp. 486-487.
ISAAC K FUNK
64.‘History of the Piper Case’ in Science and a Future Life (Boston: Herbert B. Turner, 1905), pp.113-33.
JAMES H. HYSLOP
65. Preface to After Death-What: Spiritistic Phenomena and Their Interpretation (Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1909), pp. v-vii.
CESARE LOMBROSO
66. Introduction to Experiments in Psychical Science: Levitation, “Contact,” and “the Direct Voice” (London: John Watkins, 1919), pp. 1-17
WILLIAM JACKSON CRAWFORD
67. Extract from Houdini exposes the tricks used by the Boston medium “Margery” to win the $2500 prized offered by the Scientific American. Also a complete exposure of Argamasilla, the famous Spaniard who baffled noted scientists of Europe and America, with his claim to X-ray vision (New York: Adams Press, c1924), pp. 33-39.
Part 3: Spiritualism, Science and Technology
68.‘The Last of Katie King’ in Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism. Reprinted from The Quarterly Journal of Science (London: J. Burns, 1874), pp. 108-112.
WILLIAM CROOKES
69.‘Occult Telegraphy’. Light, 7 April 1888, pp. 162-3.
70.‘’Spirit Photography’, with Remarks on Fluorescence’. The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography. Ed. Andrew Glendinning. London: Whittaker, 1894. Pp. 9-52.
TAYLOR, J. TRAILL
71. Preface from The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography. London: Whittaker, 1894. v-viii
ANDREW GLENDINNING, ed
72.‘Miscellanea: The Beauty of Katie King Described’ in The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography. London: Whittaker, 1894.: 122-23
ANDREW GLENDINNING, ed
73. Extract from The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography. London: Whittaker, 1894. “Miscellanea: [Alfred Russel Wallace and Spirit Photography]: 124-26.
ANDREW GLENDINNING, ed.
74.‘The Future of Wireless Telegraphy’, North American Review, 175, August 1902, pp. 263-274.
P. T. MCGRATH
75. Introduction in Photographing the Invisible: Practical Studies in Supernormal Photography, Script and Other Allied Phenomena (London: Fowler & Co. and Chicago: The Advanced Thought Publishing, 1911), pp. 1-15.
JAMES COATES
76.‘An Experiment in Faking ‘Spirit’ Photographs’, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 20 Feb. 1922, pp. 219-23.
EVERARD FEILDING
77.‘Correspondence: II. On ‘An Experiment in Faking ‘Spirit’ Photographs’. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 20 April 1922, pp. 259-266.
C. E. BADDELEY et al.
78.‘A Case of Fraud with the Crewe Circle’, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 20 May 1922, pp. 271-83.
E. FORD
79.‘Ghosts That Talk ? by Radio’, Literary Digest, 21 October 1922: 28-29.
Volume 4: Anti-Spiritualism edited by Tatiana Kontou
80.‘Table Tipping’ in Psychomancy, Spirit Rappings and Table Tippings Exposed (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1853), pp. 73-96
PROF. CHARLES G. PAGE
81.‘The Spirits Come to Town’, Chambers Edinburgh Journal, May 1853, pp. 321-324
Anon
82.‘Addenda’ in A Discovery Concerning Ghosts; with a Rap at the “Spirit Rappers” (London: Frederick Arnold, 1863), pp. 29-48
GEORGE CRUICKSHANK
83.‘Hocus Pocus’, ‘Spiritualists Pray to the Devil’, ‘Spiritualism Produces Insanity’ and ‘Spirit Demented’ in An Expose of Spiritualism (Montpelier: Polland’s Steam Printing Establishment, 1872) pp. 33-38; 42-43; 47-49; 71-75
REV. JOHN GREGORY
84.‘A Spiritualist Seance’, New Quarterly Magazine, October 1873, pp. 147-166
85. Extract from Spiritualism and Allied Causes and Conditions of Nervous Derangement (New York: G.P. Putnams and Sons, 1876) pp. 93-117
WILLIAM ALEXANDER HAMMOND
86.‘At a Spiritual Seance’, Leisure Hour, 1877, pp. 524-526
87. Extract from Spiritualist Madness (London: Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 1877) pp. 3-34
L. S. FORBES WINSLOW
88.‘Table Turning and Table-Talking’ and ‘Spiritualism’ in Mesmerism, spiritualism, &c., historically & scientifically considered : being two lectures delivered at the London Institution, with preface and appendix (London : Longmans, Green, 1877) pp. 97-100; 101-116
WILLIAM B. CARPENTER
89.‘Science and the “Spirits”’ in Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses and Reviews (London: Longmans, Green Co., 1879) pp. 314-324
JOHN TYNDALL
90.‘Hallucinations and Illusions’ and‘Hallucinations and Illusions Continued’ in Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886), pp. 162-186; 187-219
HENRY MAUDSLEY
91.‘Origin of the Fraud’ and ‘A Scientific Jury’ in The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters, as Revealed by the Authority of Margaret Fox Kane and Catherine Fox Jencken (New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1888) pp. 81-93; 164-200
REUBEN BRIGGS DAVENPORT
92.‘The Logic of Table Turning’ in Cock Lane and Common Sense (London: Longmans, Green, 1894), pp. 304-332
ANDREW LANG
93.‘Test with Envelope’ in Behind the Scenes with the Mediums (Chicago: The Open Court Press, 1909), pp. 14-19; 70-75
DAVID P. ABBOT
94.‘Disturbers of the Dead’ and ‘Is there danger from the Other Side?’ in The Case Against Spiritualism (London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919), pp. 31-39; 107-108;
JANE T. STODDART
95. Extracts from The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism Revealed. Personal Experiences with mediums, seances and ghosts (Chicago: The Bible Institute Coportage Ass’n 1922), pp. 41-47
GEORGE LEO WILKINS
96.‘The Psychic Phenomena of Spiritualism’ in The Truth About Spiritualism (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1923), pp. 121-166
WILLIAM SAMUEL SADLER, M. D. F. A. C. S
97.‘How Mediums Obtain Information’ and ‘Magicians as Detectors of Fraud’ in A Magician Amongst the Spirits (New York: Harper, 1924), pp. 217-228; 244-265
HARRY HOUDINI
98.‘Spiritualism and Hysteria’ and ‘Scientists and Spiritualism’ in Spiritualism: a Fake (can we communicate with the dead?) (Boston: Stratford Company, 1925), pp. 90-101; 102-127.
JAMES J. WALSH
