Elves blew his mind
Mike Jay: Hallucinations, 7 March 2013
Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800-1920
edited by Shane McCorristine.
Pickering and Chatto, 5 vols, 1950 pp., £450, September 2012,978 1 84893 200 5 Show More
edited by Shane McCorristine.
Pickering and Chatto, 5 vols, 1950 pp., £450, September 2012,
“... president, the Cambridge philosophy professor Henry Sidgwick, are extracted in the first volume of Shane McCorristine’s expansive recovery of 19th-century studies in ‘the night side of nature’. The selection opens with vivid early-century reports of ‘apparitions’ and ‘spectral illusions’; in the later decades, the term ... ”