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    Psychic Phenomena: The Appearance of Light: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    Psychic Phenomena: The Appearance of Light: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    Psychic Phenomena: The Appearance of Light: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    Psychic Phenomena: The Appearance of Light: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

    By Edward T. Bennet and Varla Ventura

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    Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual.

    A 1909 publication that debates the genuine vs. the charlatans when it comes to parlor tricks and the real psychic phenomena. From an author renowned for his work on spiritualism, Christian Science, and the psychical world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781619400962
    Psychic Phenomena: The Appearance of Light: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    Edward T. Bennet

    Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".

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      Psychic Phenomena - Edward T. Bennet

      Psychic Phenomena: The Appearance of Light

      Edward T. Bennett

      Varla Ventura

      Paranormal Parlor

      A Weiser Books Collection

      This ebook edition first published in 2012 by Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC.

      With offices at:

      665 Third Street, Suite 400

      San Francisco, CA 94107

      www.redwheelweiser.com

      Copyright © 2012 by Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. All rights reserved.

      Excerpted from Psychic Phenomena by Edward T. Bennett. New York: Bretano's, 1909.

      eISBN: 978-1-61940-096-2

      Cover design by Jim Warner

      Contents

      Let There Be Light by Varla Ventura

      THE APPEARANCE OF LIGHT WITHOUT ANY APPARENT PHYSICAL CAUSE

      SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY

      Let There Be Light

      As a fan of horror and ghostly things, I am lucky to have stayed in more than one shady grove or hallowed hallway. Among the freakiest overnights I've spent with one eye open, chasing shadows and recording EVPs, was one in the Preston Castle—an old boy's reform school in Ione, California. It looms above the sleepy little gold rush town, peering down upon the vineyards and scraggly pines with half-shuttered window-eyes and a toothless brick grin. When we arrived, the moon was on the rise, nearly full, and streaming through the holes in the roof to the floorboards below. Bats swept in and out of the rafters just below the

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