Servants of the Supernatural. The Night Side of the Victorian Mind

A compelling history of the golden era of the Victorian seance that tells the tale of the mediums and psychics, their followers, and the sleuths who set out to expose them
Born of the so-called Victorian ‘pseudo science’ of mesmerism, the séance enjoyed a late 19th century golden age that ministered to the Victorian obsession with science, religious doubt, and entertainment.Mediums, psychics and somnambulists were investigated by amateur sleuths and by scientists like Faraday and Darwin; their