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David Phelps Abbott investigates the methods behind performances presented as communication with spirits. He describes sittings, demonstrations and encounters with mediums, connecting what spectators see with the arrangements and techniques that can make apparently inexplicable effects possible.
The chapters range across messages, slate writing, materializations and other familiar features of the séance room. Abbott’s interest in conjuring informs his attention to observation, misdirection and the practical details of a performance.
This complete fifth revised edition of 1916 preserves the original investigations, illustrations and later additions. The book first appeared in 1907.