Summoned to the Seance

Spirit tales from Beyond the Veil

Emily Vincent

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British Library Publishing
12 December 2024

Classic horror & ghost stories; Ghosts & poltergeists; Monsters & legendary beings

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

""Keep still! Keep still! Don't break the circle!""

Through the electric silence around the seance table, the rapping of an unknown hand spells out a horrible revelation. A play with the planchette invites a diabolical visitor to Radley Manor. A medium's summoning of a lost child pitches them into mortal peril.

In the mid-nineteenth century, public fascination with spiritualism surged, bringing forth a new literary craze for stories of ghost and demon summonings and communications with the dead via a medium.

Reviving spectral narratives by Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells and Florence Marryat alongside lost classics of the genre, from the birth of the movement through to its last days of popularity in the twentieth century, this new collection invites you to take a seat at the fragile threshold between the mortal world and the chilling realms of the dead.

Edited by: Emily Vincent
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 56
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712355919
ISBN 10: 071235591X
Series: British Library Tales of the Weird
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 12 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Emily Vincent is a researcher and writer based at the University of Birmingham, whose specialisms include spiritualism, occult detection, nineteenth-century ghost stories, and pandemics in Victorian literature.