The Magician and the Spirits: Harry Houdini and the Curious Pastime of Communicating with the Dead

Title: The Magician and the Spirits: Harry Houdini and the Curious Pastime of Communicating with the Dead
Book List: Interesting Nonfiction & Biographies for Teens
Published by: Viking
Author: Deborah Noyes
Genre: Teen
ISBN13: 9780803740181

A century ago, the curious idea that spirits not only survive death but can be contacted on the "other side" was widespread. Psychic mediums led countless seances, claiming to connect the grieving with their lost relations through everything from frenzied trance writing to sticky expulsions of ectoplasm.

The craze caught Harry Houdini's attention. Well-known by then as most renowned magician and escape artist, he began to investigate these spiritual phenomena. Are ghosts real? Can we communicate with them? Catch them in photographs? Or are all mediums "flim-flammers," employing tricks and illusions like Houdini himself?

Peopled with odd and fascinating characters, Houdini's gripping quest will excite readers' universal wonderment with life, death, and the possibility of the Beyond.

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