Summoned to the Seance

Spirit tales from Beyond the Veil

Emily Vincent

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British Library
01 April 2025

Classic horror & ghost stories; Ghosts & poltergeists; Monsters & legendary beings; Short Stories Horror

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

You will hear loud raps, you will have your faces touched by cold, damp, unseen fingers

THINGS will be all round you, and a frightful white face will come out of nowhere, and peer into yours!

Through the electric silence of the seance, a terrible, hurtling force draws near. 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 this haunting new collection, Emily Vincent presents fourteen chilling classics and lost gems of seance fiction which evoke the most thrilling and thought-provoking aspects of the popular Victorian movement of spiritualism. Featuring tales by practising mediums, sceptics and ghost-seekers including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Florence Marryat and F. Scott Fitzgerald, this volume is a suffusion of spectral frights and satirical skewerings, destined to linger with the reader long after the door to the seance has closed.

Edited by: Emily Vincent
Imprint: British Library
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: 01 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.