Houdini: a magician among the spirits

by Houdini, Harry

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Title Statements

Full title :Houdini : a magician among the spirits / by Harry Houdini.

Summary

The whole country got excited by Houdini's campaign against faking spiritualists. He careened through the country, offering money for spirit contacts he couldn't duplicate by admitted magical chicanery. It was a heyday not only for Houdini but for the spirit-callers and there was an equally famous protagonist who thought the spirits could indeed be contacted, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A photo at the front records a meeting between Houdini and Doyle and Houdini gives Doyle his own chapter. There's an earlier chapter on Daniel Dunglas Home, the English engineer of spectacular paranormal effects. Houdini raises hell with spiritualists who were giving their (usually paying) clients a vision of heavens to come, and shares the methods used to practice "fake" and sensational spiritualism. Houdini was nothing if not unrelenting. As a taste of things to come, he ends his introduction with the words: "Up to the present time everything that I have investigated has been the result of deluded brains."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1924
Edition:Reprint edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Arno Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1924

Notes

Facsimile reprint of the first edition, published: New York and London : Harper & Brothers, 1924.

The Physical Object

Description:xix, 294 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0405028016, 9780405028014
oclc:ocm00314138
LC Classification:BF1042
Dewey Decimal:133.9

The founders of modern spiritualism -- The Davenport brothers -- Daniel Dunglas home -- Palladino -- Ann O'Delia Diss Debar -- Dr. Slade and his spirit slates -- Slate writing and other methods -- Spirit photography -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Why ectoplasm? -- By-products of spiritualism -- Investigations-wise and otherwise -- How mediums obtain information -- What you must believe to be a spiritualist -- Magicians as detectors of fraud.

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