A Magician among the Spirits (Summarized Edition). Enriched edition. A Magician's Biography of Early 20th‑Century Spiritualism—Exposing Psychic Frauds with Illusion Techniques
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- Nombre de pages135
- FormatePub
- ISBN859-65--4788182-7
- EAN8596547881827
- Date de parution10/01/2026
- Protection num.Digital Watermarking
- Taille866 Ko
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurQUICKIE CLASSICS
Résumé
A Magician Among the Spirits is Houdini's incisive autopsy of the seance vogue that followed war and pandemic. In a cool, prosecutorial prose, he inventories slate-writing, trumpets, ectoplasm, billet tests, and spirit photography, then reconstructs, step by step, the methods that produced them. Mixing case files, affidavits, and on-the-spot trials, he situates his exposures within the transatlantic debate over psychical research, including his ruptured friendship with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The result is documentary history turned demonstration. Houdini writes not as a scoffer but as a consummate deceiver who knows illusion's limits. The immigrant son turned autodidact librarian of magic and spiritualism, he infiltrated seances, offered rewards for verifiable phenomena, and reproduced marvels under control. Personal loss, above all his mother's death, sharpened his resolve: he yearned to believe, yet his craft compelled doubt and a public ethic of protecting the bereaved from predation.
Readers of occult history, performance studies, and critical inquiry will prize this lucid, humane dossier. Read it for exacting casework, for a culture's yearning on display, and for a model of empathy disciplined by evidence. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
The result is documentary history turned demonstration. Houdini writes not as a scoffer but as a consummate deceiver who knows illusion's limits. The immigrant son turned autodidact librarian of magic and spiritualism, he infiltrated seances, offered rewards for verifiable phenomena, and reproduced marvels under control. Personal loss, above all his mother's death, sharpened his resolve: he yearned to believe, yet his craft compelled doubt and a public ethic of protecting the bereaved from predation.
Readers of occult history, performance studies, and critical inquiry will prize this lucid, humane dossier. Read it for exacting casework, for a culture's yearning on display, and for a model of empathy disciplined by evidence. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
