spiritualism

Thirteen-year-old Avery plans a seance at a deserted theater to bond with her friends, but they soon realize they are locked inside with someone-or something-else.

"Uncovers a little-known chapter in American history and details the ways people were (and still are) deceived by mediums and fortune-tellers"--Provided by publisher.

The existence of ghosts and spirits cannot be accounted for by science or logic. Nonetheless, since ancient times, many people across civilizations, cultures, and walks of life have believed in these entities.

Edie works for the Elysian Society, a secretive service that allows grieving clients to contact their lost loved ones. Edie dresses like the deceased, then swallows a pill called "lotus" to summon their departed minds into hers and let her own mind sink into the background. She tries not to become emotionally involved with her clients, but her latest, Patrick Braddock, and his departed wife Sylvia, become too interesting, and attractive, for her to stay away, and soon, Edie's quiet life begins unraveling as she uses lotus pills to summon Sylvia more, and Sylvia starts taking over.

Explores parapsychology, clairvoyance, and many experiments that set out to prove or disprove psychic powers.

Seventeen-year-old twins--and powerful mediums--Edie and Violet Bond are part of a Spiritualist show, a tight-knit group of young women who express unladylike talents and opinions under the guise of communing with spirits, but when the dark spirit responsible for their mother's death crosses into the land of the living, the twins race against time to uncover a killer who will stop at nothing to cheat death.

After their parents' deaths, siblings Liza and John Carroll are placed in the care of their uncle, a traveling con artist who scams the grieving with fradulent spirit photographs, until they arrive at a Spiritualist commune where the barrier between the living and the dead is very thin.

A feud between three girls over an elite prize turns to fatalities and madness, and blurs the distinction between what's real and what's imagined.

The author recounts her research into life after death.

An examination of the history and nature of spiritualism, a paranormal phenomena.