spiritualism

Helen Schneider begins receiving psychic visions at an early age but is too frightened to tell anyone; but as an adult during World War II, Helen feels it is her patriotic duty to hold s?ances for the families of dead servicemen.

Spirits of the 1860s, Ghost Horse and Red Dress, seek to be reunited through an Indian couple of the 1980s.

Stories of children, once clinically dead, involving out-of-body travel, telepathic communication and encounters with dead friends and relatives.

Presents the history of spiritualism in America and in England, including discussions of some of the better-known alleged mediums, with photographs.

Presents transcripts from laboratory experiments in which mediums were asked to contact dead relatives and friends of "sitters" whom they were not allowed to see nor speak to; and details the author's move from skepticism to belief in life after death.

Approximately 250 entries on topics related to life after death, in alphabetical arrangement, with cross-references, sources, index, and appendix of related organiations.

After the accident that killed Luke's mother, he begins to get messages from the bodies in the funeral home where he lives with his stepfather, who is acting even stranger than usual, and in trying to solve his mother's death, he uncovers a horrifying secret.

Offers a history of spiritualism, discusses the many ways people have tried to contact the dead, and examines different views of what happens after death.

Lee, suspecting that his wealthy grandmother is being victimized by a spiritualist, gets a job as an assistant to a friendly psychic in order to find out what is really going on.