Spirit Theater - Eugene Burger - 1st ed.w/ Audio Recording

If you've ever wondered what kinds of things went on at spirit seances during their 19th Century heyday, this amazing performance will illuminate some of those mysteries - and leave you puzzling over how the mediums did it.

The history of seances, essays on seance performance, 6 close-up effects with spirit themes, Eugene's own seance Hauntings, interviews with Tony Andruzzi and Max Maven, a reprint of the complete Sylvestre catalog of spirit paraphernalia from 1901, plus an annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents:
Part One: Setting the Stage

First Words

Point of Departure

Spirits

Spirit Theater

Seances for Fun and Profit

Part Two: Ghostly Visitors in the Nineteenth Century

Mesmer, Imagination and Suggestion

The Summer-Land "One of the Great Points of Psychic Evolution"

Manifestations from Beyond the Grave

A Shooting Star

Master Mediums

Part Three: Performance

Character and Claims The Man of Mystery: A Conversation with Tony Andruzzi

Building a Better Performance

A Central Principle

Seance Presenation: A Conversation with Max Maven

The Dark Room

Hauntings: A Conversation with Eugene Burger

Spirit Theater for the Close-Up Entertainer

Part Four: Wanderings in the Spirit Field

History

Investigation

Manifestations

Performance

Last Words

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