OCCULT WILLIAM LEITH IS SPOOKED BY THE ACTIVITIES OF VICTORIAN SPIRITUALISTS

The Sunday Telegraph London | February 11, 2007| | Copyright

Ghost Hunters

BY DEBORAH BLUM

CENTURY, pounds 17.99, 370 ppT pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

This is a book about a group of Victorian intellectuals who, for various reasons, became obsessed with the idea of contacting people in the afterlife. The most famous of them was Henry James's older brother, William, but most of them were English. They tried everything - they attended sances, visited mediums, collected and researched hundreds of ghost stories. When members of the group started to die, they tried to contact each other from beyond the grave - with, it appears, some ...

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