Ghosts by Gaslight

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Ghosts by Gaslight
by Troy Taylor
Whitechapel Press
$18.95

Journey back in time with author Troy Taylor as he delves into the history and mystery of the Spiritualist movement and the efforts of the first ghost hunters to investigate the earliest evidence of contact with the spirit world! Beginning with the Fox sisters, “Ghosts by Gaslight” explores the famous and little-known mediums and proponents of Spiritualism, the mysterious cases that baffled the scientists of the day and even the incidents of outright fraud that have given the period such a colorful reputation. The book’s second half is devoted to the scientists, researchers and magicians who investigated the claims of the Spiritualists and how they debunked --- and accepted – the strange incidents that occurred.


This is a chilling, mystifying and entertaining addition to the history of ghost research and a must-have book for curious history readers, ghost buffs, paranormal investigators and anyone else who wonders about the things that go bump in the night! Includes More than 300 photographs of the strange, the unusual and the bizarre!

Table of Contents & More About the Book:


THE FOX SISTERS
The Rise & Fall of Spiritualism’s Founders

MYSTERY & MAGIC OF SPIRITUALISM
The Rise of An American Original

THE MAN WHO COULD FLY
The Mysterious History of Daniel Douglas Home


THE KOONS’ “SPIRIT ROOM”
Bizarre History from Athens County, Ohio

THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS
Mediums or Magicians?


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FROM ANOTHER WORLD
Strange History of the Eddy Brothers


PSYCHIC WONDER OR BLATANT FRAUD
The Question of Eusapia Palladino

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
What Led the Creator of Sherlock Holmes to Become the World’s Leading Proponent of Spiritualism?

ONE WHITE CROW
The Mystery of Leonora Piper

THE DECLINE OF MEDIUMSHIP
The Latter Years of Spiritualism’s Heyday from the fiasco of Helen Duncan, the so-called "martyr to Spiritualism" to Eileen Garrett and the mystery of the R-101 Disaster

BOOK 2: THE GHOST HUNTERS

THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
And Other Early Investigators of Ghostly Phenomena , featuring Sir William Crookes; Florence Cook & Katie King; Sir Oliver Lodge; Cross Correspondences; James Hyslop; Walter Franklin Prince; Pearl Curran; Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing; Eva C.; Willi and Rudi Schneider & More


HARRY PRICE
The Life & Times of the Original “Ghost Hunter”

THE MAGICIANS & DEBUNKERS
The “Other Side of the Coin” when Investigating the Paranormal, featuring How to Have a Séance; William S. Marriott; David P. Abbott; the Bangs Sisters; Harry Kellar; Howard Thurston; Joseph Dunninger; the Spook Shows of the 1920s and 1930s & More

HOUDINI
A Magician Among the Spirits