Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Author's Note xiii
Prologue 1
Part I The Black Art
1 Procure the Remedy at Once and Be Well 13
2 Love and Painting Are Quarrelsome Companions 23
3 Ties Which Death Itself Could Not Loose 33
4 A Palace for the Sun 45
5 I Thought Nobody Would Be Damaged Much 53
6 A Lounging, Listless Madhouse 59
7 My God! Is It Possible? 69
8 She Really Is a Wonderful Whistler 81
9 No Shadow of Trickery 93
10 A Craving for Light 101
Part II Philosophical Instruments
11 The Message Department 113
12 A Big Head Full of Ideas 123
13 Chair and All 139
14 Did You Ever Dream of Some Lost Friend? 153
15 War Against Wrong 163
16 Whose Bones Lie Bleaching 171
Part III Humbugged
17 All Is Gone and Nothing Saved 183
18 A Favorite Haunt of Apparitions 197
19 The Spirits Do Not Like a Throng 209
20 The Tenderest Sympathies of Human Nature 215
21 Weep, Weep, My Eyes 223
22 Are You a Spiritualist in Any Degree? 235
23 An Old, Moth-Eaten Cloak 243
24 By Supernatural Means 251
25 Figura Vaporosa 259
26 They Paid Their Money, and They Had Their Choice 277
27 Those Mortals Gifted with the Power of Seeing 283
Part IV Image and Afterlife
28 Calm assurance of a Happy Future 295
29 The Mumler Process 305
Acknowledgments 311
Notes and Sources 313