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Abraham, Nicolas 159, 161 Brown, Annie 201 American Psychical Institute and Brown, J.H. 47–8 Laboratory 227 Brown, Samuel 195 American Society for Psychical Research Browning, Robert 15, 108 112, 167, 170, 196 Buchanan, Robert 48 Andrews, Malcolm 135 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 14 angels 39, 67, 68 Burton, Richard Francis 104 animal magnetism 9, 66, 71 Buss, Robert W. 63 animism 20, 82 Butler, Samuel 140 anthropology 20, 82, 128, 135 Arie`s, Philippe 155 Carlyle, Thomas 92 Aristotle 6 Carpenter, William B. 78, 205, 207 Assier, Adolphe d’ 95 Carrington, Hereward 223, 227 atheism 43, 51, 220 Castle, Terry 33, 35 Cerullo, John 213 Baillarger, Jules 55, 194 Chapman, William 47 Balcon, Michael 188 Charcot, Jean-Martin 196 Balfour, Arthur 104, 111, 175 Cixous, He´le`ne 3 Ballou, Adin 109 clairvoyance 71, 74, 99, 177, 183 Barrett, William Fletcher 109, 110, 112, Clark, Stuart 31 114, 115, 139, 151, 152 Clerke, Kate M. 178–9 Barthes, Roland 158 Cock Lane ghost 8 Bath, Jo 29 Coffin, Walter H. 114 Baudelaire, Charles 219 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 17, 37, 56, 79 Beard, George M. 221 communication networks 3, 11, 105, behaviourism 211, 212, 216 115, 148–9 Bekker, Balthasar 29 communion of saints 157 Bergson, Henri 104, 160, 190 community of sensation 22, 69, 135–8, Bierce, Ambrose 91 145, 147, 150, 160–2, 167, 176, Binet, Alfred 194 178, 190, 212 Blackburn, Douglas 116, 169, 189 Comte, Auguste 113 Blake, William 88 Cook, Florence 15, 76, 108, 109 Blavatsky, Helena 164, 165–6 Cottingley fairies 224 Bo¨hme, Gernot 36 Cottom, Daniel 4, 13 Bo¨hme, Hartmut 36 Cox, Edward William ‘Serjeant’ 103 Bowyer, Richard A. 27 Cox, Michael 17 Breton, Andre´ 219 Crawley, A.E. 84 Brewster, David 33, 49 Creery Sisters 116, 169, 171–2, 189 Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre 55–7, 60, 89 Crookes, William 15, 76, 104, 108, 109 Briggs, Julia 65 Crosland, Newton 95 British College of Psychic Science 227 Crowe, Catherine 10–11, 12, 13, 15 Bronte¨, Charlotte 11 Cruikshank, George 90

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Darwin, Frank 105 Ghost Club 103 Darwinism 22, 128 Ghost Society 103 Davies, Owen 4, 8 ghost stories (fiction) 13, 14, 16–19, 20, death 3–4, 39, 115, 138, 153–6, 159, 160, 35–6, 60, 61–5, 123, 136–7, 223 161, 177, 179, 195, 223–4 ghosts bereavement 49, 93, 148, 149, 155, 224 in the bedroom 63, 144, 158, 174, compacts 148, 150 178–9, 205 of the other 3, 147, 148, 151, 155, 168 and Catholicism 30, 57 of the self 160 of a child 125 Defoe, Daniel 8, 17, 31 and clothes 21, 45, 69, 73, 90–100 de la Mare, Walter 222 crisis-apparition 1, 2, 74, 137–8, 140, Denton, William 96–7 143, 145–9, 149–51, 153–6, 162, Derrida, Jacques 5, 19 167, 169, 195, 199, 200, 208, 227 Dickens, Charles 6, 13–14, 17, 19, 35, as a double 81 88, 135 as dreams 3, 19, 23, 40, 45, 65, 69, A Christmas Carol 61–3, 65 75, 208–9 Dickinson, Emily 133, 134 as entertainment 47 Dilthey, Wilhelm 8 forebodings of 158–9 Dodge, Raymond 211–12 medieval 27 Dolby, R.G.A. 190 phantasms of the dead 22, 99, 130, 134, Doyle, Arthur Conan 104, 187, 223, 224 138, 172, 181, 183, 187, 199 dreams 160, 192 and Protestantism 17, 28, 156, 157–8 of the dead 73, 150, 160–1, 161–2, 179 purposeless 3, 126, 173, 180 and hallucinations 63, 72–3, 161 of the self 143–5, 150, 222 theories of 3, 37–40, 50, 57 testimony of 44, 117–18, 119–24, 130, Drelincourt, Charles 18 163, 165, 174 traditional 1, 2, 4, 45, 91, 121, 122, 123, Eglinton, William 115 154, 159, 173, 175, 179, 199, 227 Eliot, George 60, 140 and vision 6–8, 32, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, Ellenberger, Henri 10 49, 52, 76, 88, 90 Ellis, Havelock 204 Gilbert, R.A. 17 Engels, Friedrich 218 Gladstone, William E. 104, 105 Enlightenment, the 11, 19, 31–3, 43, Glanvill, Joseph 30, 220 46, 48, 59, 68, 77, 91, 119, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 81 130, 216, 218 Goya, Francisco de 37, 64 Esquirol, J.E.D. 20, 53–5, 62, 193 Grose, Francis 45 evangelicalism 79 Gurney, Edmund 98, 99, 111, 114, 115, Ey, Henri 55 116, 119, 123, 127, 128, 131, 133, 135, 139, 140–1, 146, 152, 153–4, factionality 10, 14, 16–18, 19, 106, 158, 161–2, 163, 164, 165, 166–7, 223, 227 169–70, 171, 172, 174, 175, 176–7, Faraday, Michael 13 178–9, 181, 185, 186, 187, 188, Fata Morgana 52 189, 193, 194, 195, 198, 199, Ferriar, John 39, 44, 45, 51, 52, 56 202, 203 Flournoy, The´odore 187, 213 Ford, Jennifer 37 Hall, G. Stanley 112, 168–70 Foucault, Michel 11 hallucination 2, 3, 20, 21, 32, 33, 39, 42, Fournier d’Albe, E.E. 151, 223 45, 52–7, 61–5, 68, 69, 74, 75, 76, Fox sisters 12, 66 80–2, 84, 87, 88–9, 90, 91, 97–8, Freud, Sigmund 39, 57, 104, 100, 117, 119, 124, 190, 215–17 213–14, 223 of an artist 118–19 definition of 32, 52, 79–80, 88 Galton, Francis 20, 84–7, 88, 198 as dream 40, 50, 53, 54–5, 59, 63, Gaskell, Elizabeth 14 69–70, 82, 83, 91, 92, 98, 202–9, Gauld, Alan 104, 189 210, 216–17

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of memory 167, 168 Kollar, Rene 157 moral cause of 56 Kuhn, Thomas 170 origin of 46, 53, 55, 193–4, 199 theory of 46, 117 Lamont, Peter 16 French 53–60, 81 Lang, Andrew 98, 106, 206, 208–9 Hauffe, Friederike 10, 71 Latour, Bruno 211 haunted house 114, 117, 118, 123, 172–4, Lautreámont, Comte de 219 175, 176, 222 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan 18, 35 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 35, 65, 149 Le´lut, L.F. 89 ‘The Haunted Mind’ 63–5 Leonardo da Vinci 219 Haynes, Reneé 186 Leopardi, Giacomo 219 Hearnshaw, L.S. 185 Lewes, George Henry 76–7, 88 Hervey de Saint-Denys, Marie-Jean-León Lewis, Angelo (‘Professor Hoffmann’) 77 57, 58–9, 216 Llina´s, R.R. 216 Hibbert, Samuel 44–5, 56, 86 Locke, John 6 Hodgson, Richard 115, 166, 187, 188, 191 Lodge, Oliver 133, 164, 186, 187, 223 Hoffmann, E.T.A. 10, 37 London Dialectical Society 14, 208 Holland, Henry 50 London Society for the Prevention of Home, Daniel Dunglas 15, 76, 108, Premature Burial 154 109, 207 Luckhurst, Roger 105, 120, 121, 142, 189 Homer 1 Luther, Martin 28, 39, 56, 89 Honywood, Mrs 208 Hopkins, R. Thurston 223 MacAlpine, William 137 Howitt, William 219 Machen, Arthur 223 Hume, David 69, 129 Macnish, Robert 49 hypnotism 79, 98, 115, 135, 141, 170, 179, magic 12 182, 183, 194, 196, 207 Martin, Lillien J. 87–8 Marx, Karl 218 Ibsen, Henrik 220 Maudsley, Henry 79–81, 89 Innes, A. Taylor 163–4, 165, 167, 170 Maury, Alfred 57–8, 59–60, 60, Institut me´tapsychique international 227 203, 216 International Congress of Experimental McDougall, William 104 Psychology 196–7, 210 Mesmer, Anton 122 Ireland, William W. 89–90 mesmerism 9, 13, 22, 71, 78, 80, 110, 114, 115, 122, 135, 136, 144, 182 James VI and I 29 Mill, John Stuart 132–3 James, Henry 1, 2, 3, 9, 124, 137, 227 Moses, William Stainton 104, 143–4, 145 ‘The Friends of the Friends’ 1–2 Most Haunted 1 James, William 9, 14, 104, 112, 116, 131, Muhammad 89 137, 141, 182–3, 187, 190, 196, Mu¨ller, Johannes 50 197, 211, 213–14, 227 Myers, A.T. 196 Janet, Pierre 59, 196, 213 Myers, Frederic W.H. 21, 22, 98–9, 104, Joan of Arc 89 105, 106, 107–8, 110, 111, 114, Johnson, Samuel 31 115, 116, 119, 128, 134, 137, 139, Joyce, James 6, 220 140, 141, 145, 146, 172, 174, 176, Jung, Carl Gustav 15, 104, 156, 214–15 177–8, 179–80, 181–8, 190, 196, Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich 7, 10 210, 213 Human Personality and Its Survival of Kant, Immanuel 20, 36, 66–70, 71, 74, 75, Bodily Death 22, 114, 182, 187, 190 124, 164, 192, 216, 218, 221 Kardec, Allan 11, 93 Nancy, Jean-Luc 151 Keats, John 35 National Laboratory of Psychical Kerner, Justinus 10 Research 227 Keulemans, J.G. 125 Newton, Isaac 186 Kirkland, Winifred 223 Newton, John 29

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Nicol, Fraser 141 Rhine, J.B. 227 Nicolai, Christoph Friedrich 40–3, 50, 60, Ribot, Germain Theodore 196 63, 69, 78, 88, 97, 193 Richet, Charles 104, 132, 196 Nietzsche, Friedrich 137 Rimbaud, Arthur 219 Robertson, C. Lockhart 114 Oliphant, Margaret 223 Roffe, Alfred 93 Ollier, Charles 75 Rogers, Edmund Dawson 110 Oppenheim, Janet 5, 185 Rogers, Edward Coit 219–20 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 69 parapsychology 212, 227 Royal Society (London) 30 Pare´,D.216 Royal Society of Berlin 40 Parish, Edmund 203–6 Royce, Josiah 112, 167–8, 170, 204 Pascal, Blaise 89 Ruskin, John 145 Paterson, Robert 48–9 Peabody, Sophia 149 Scarborough, Dorothy 17 Peirce, Charles S. 123, 166–7, 169, 170 Scarry, Elaine 221 phantasmagoria 5, 20, 33–5, 56, 86 scepticism (towards religion) 3, 23, Phasmatological Society 103 29–30, 43, 51–2, 89, 105–6, 107, Philipstahl, Paul de 33, 34 109, 156, 181 Phillips, Forbes 223 Schiller, F.C.S. 227 Pinel, Philippe 20, 53 Schiller, Friedrich von 35, 219, 220 Podmore, Frank 98, 99–100, 114, 115, The Ghost-seer 35–6, 219 139, 141, 172, 174, 180–1, 181–2, Scho¨nfeld, Martin 67 185, 187, 188, 206–8 Schopenhauer, Arthur 20, 40, 66, 70–5, Porter, Roy 54 92, 154, 208 Price, Harry 227 Schwartz, Sophie 216 psychical research 5, 22, 40, 80, 105, 108, scientific naturalism 15, 21, 23, 71, 109–10, 114, 121, 127, 128, 129, 80, 100, 108, 121, 128, 136, 132, 135, 141, 142, 143, 161, 182, 139, 140, 143, 147, 170, 171, 183, 184, 185, 188, 192, 193, 197, 186, 188, 214 211–12, 214, 223, 227 Scot, Reginald 29 (see also Society for Psychical Scott, Walter 49 Research) se´ance 12, 15, 16, 77, 81, 82, 156, 207 Cambridge 104 Seashore, Carl E. 87 psychoanalysis 213–15, 216 Seybert Commission Report 170 Psychological Society of Great Britain Shakespeare, William 8, 88, 93 103–4 Hamlet 8, 19, 30, 93, 95, 228 psychology 5 Shapin, Steven 53 crowd 56 Shell, Susan Meld 70 experimental 23, 84–8, 90, 105, 128, Showers, Mary 108 168, 169, 170, 203, 210, 211, 212 Sidgwick, Eleanor M. 99, 111, 131, 175–6, romantic 9–10, 182–3, 185 187, 196, 197, 201 psychometry 96–7 Sidgwick, Henry 106–8, 109, 110, 111, psychopathology 3, 20, 31, 42, 49, 52, 117, 128, 133, 140, 141, 142, 171, 54, 68, 69, 75, 163, 192 181, 186, 188, 191, 196, 197, 201, (see also hallucination) 207, 210 purgatory 27, 28, 156 ‘Sidgwick Group’ 106, 110–11, 175, 183, 184, 186, 187, 188, 189 Quinney, Laura 35 Simmel, Georg 121 Slade, Henry 108 Rabate´, Jean-Michel 221 Smith, Adam 160 Raverat, Gwen 105 Smith, George A. 116, 169, 188–9 Rayleigh, Lord (John William Strutt) 176 Smith, J.P. 201–2 Reichenbach phenomena 114, 115 Socie´te´ exe´ge´tique et philanthropique 9 Reformation 28, 57 Socie´te´ me´dico-psychologique 59

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Society for Psychical Research (SPR) 13, surrealism 219 21–3, 52, 74, 98, 104, 111, 139–91, Swedenborg, Emanuel 6, 9, 66, 67–70, 89 192–217, 222, 227 Census of Hallucinations 23, 195–206, Taillepied, Noel 29 210, 212 Taine, Hippolyte 59–60, 61, 84, 86 committees 114 telegraphy 1, 3, 11, 148, 149, 152 concept of hallucination 23, 105, (see also communication networks) 192–215, 216 telepathy 23, 99, 106, 112, 116, 117, foundation 110 120, 121, 122, 126, 132, 135, membership 104, 111, 121–2, 129 138, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, Phantasms of the Living 22, 23, 114, 133, 151, 152, 153, 154, 162–3, 164, 139–51, 152–72, 175, 176–8, 181, 165, 168, 169–70, 171, 172, 183, 187, 190, 195, 199, 202, 204, 210 174, 175, 178, 180, 181, 182, criticisms of 162–72 183, 185, 188, 189, 190, 197, rules 129 199–200, 203, 207, 208, 210, terminology 115, 117, 118, 124, 212, 213, 216, 218 135, 139 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 104, 112 Society for the Study of Supernormal Theosophical Society 165, 175 Pictures 224 and Society for Psychical Research Socrates 89 115, 165–6 soul 22, 27, 29, 30, 39, 69, 82, 90, 91, theosophy 121, 188 95, 123, 145, 155, 156, 158, 160, thought-transference 106, 109, 115, 173, 178, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 116–17, 118, 126, 127, 138, 141, 188, 213 143, 145, 146, 149, 150, 153, 171, spectral illusions theory 20, 41–2, 43–53, 54, 188 (see also telepathy) 62–3, 66, 77, 78, 119, 127, 193, 218 Turner, Frank Miller 128 cases of 40, 46, 47–9 Tylor, Edward B. 20, 82–4, 214 Spectre of the Broken 44, 52 Tyndall, John 13, 185 Spinoza, Baruch 218 spirit photography 16, 187, 224 Vande Kemp, Hendrika 160 spiritualism 4, 5, 9, 11, 12–16, 20–1, 30, Viollet, Marcel 81 43, 51, 65, 66, 68, 69, 75–84, 90–8, Voltaire (Franc¸ois-Marie Arouet) 32 100, 103, 104, 105, 108, 109, 112, 113, 115, 126, 140, 148, 154, 155, Wagner, Richard 88 157, 158, 170, 174, 175, 176, 181, Wallace, Alfred Russel 77 182, 183, 184, 185, 187–8, 199, Watson, John B. 211 206, 207, 219, 223–4 Weber, Max 218 (see also se´ance) Wedgwood, Hensleigh 114 and Society for Psychical Research 105, Wells, H.G. 122 112, 115, 121 Williams, J.P. 128, 132 British National Alliance of Spiritualists willing game 115, 116 110 Wilson, Neil 10 Stead, W.T. 15, 106 Winter, Alison 135 Stevenson, Robert Louis 104 witchcraft 29, 43, 66, 83, 142 Stewart, Balfour 115 Wolfreys, Julian 17 Stirner, Max 219, 221 Wordsworth, William 35 Strange, Julie-Marie 224 Wyld, George 114 Stuart, Rosa 223 suicide 2, 59, 118 Yeats, William Butler 207, 222