Entranced by Eyes of Evil: Tales of Mesmerism and Mystery

by Louisa May Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ambrose Bierce

Overview

Animal Magnetism. Mesmerism. Hypnosis.

More than one name has been applied to the phenomenon of one person putting another into a deep trance-and into a deep state of submission. But how far does this power truly go? Can a devious hypnotist entrance an unknowing subject from across a room? Can a mesmerized person be compelled to commit murder? Can a hypnotic spell extend beyond death?

In the 1800s, such questions had no certain answers, and the extreme possibilities were explored by fiction writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Ambrose Bierce. These and fourteen more authors spin tales about unbounded hypnotism in Entranced by Eyes of Evil: Tales of Mesmerism and Mystery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948084031
Publisher:	Brom Bones Books
Publication date:	07/28/2018
Series:	Phantom Traditions Library , #1
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Little Women is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.