The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost /
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The black art
- Procure the remedy at once and be well
- Love and painting are quarrelsome companions
- Ties which death itself could not loose
- A palace for the Sun
- I thought nobody would be damaged much
- A lounging, listless madhouse
- My God! Is it possible?
- She really is a wonderful whistler
- No shadow of trickery
- A craving for light
- Part II: Philosophical instruments
- The message department
- A big head full of ideas
- Chair and all
- Did you ever dream of some lost friend?
- War against wrong
- Whose bones lie bleaching
- Part III: Humbugged
- All is gone and nothing saved
- A favorite haunt of apparitions
- The spirits do not like a throng
- The tenderest sympathies of human nature
- Weep, weep, my eyes
- Are you a spiritualist in any degree?
- An old, moth-eaten cloak
- By supernatural means
- Figura vaporosa
- They paid their money, and they had their choice
- Those mortals gifted with the power of seeing
- Part IV: Image and afterlife
- Calm assurance of a happy future
- The Mumler process.