Psychical Research Collection

Complete Bibliography​

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Abbott, David P. Behind the Scenes with the Mediums. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1907.

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“About the SPR.” Society for Psychical Research, www.spr.ac.uk/about-spr.​

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Adam Crabtree, personal communication with author, March 12, 2021.

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Alvarado, Carlos S. “Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Discussions of Animal Magnetism.” Intl. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, vol. 57, no. 4, Aug. 2009, pp. 366–381, doi:10.1080/00207140903098510.

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Alvarado, Carlos S, and Nancy L Zingrone. “Camille Flammarion on the Powers of the Soul.” History of Psychiatry, vol. 31, no. 2, 2019, pp. 237–252., doi:10.1177/0957154x19891015.

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Barr, Debra, and Walter Meyer zu Erpen. “Jenny O’Hara Pincock (1890-1948).” Survival Research Institute of Canada, 2018, survivalresearch.ca/Pincock_Jenny_OHara.pdf.

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Barr, Debra, and Walter Meyer zu Erpen. “William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950).” Survival Research Institute of Canada, 2018, survivalresearch.ca/King_William_Lyon_Mackenzie.pdf. ​

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Baum, Richard. “Flammarion, Nicolas Camille.” Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, by Thomas A. Hockey, Springer Reference, 2014, pp. 372–373.

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Briefel, Aviva. “‘Freaks of Furniture’: The Useless Energy of Haunted Things.” Victorian Studies, vol. 59, no. 2, 2017, pp. 209–234. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.59.2.01.

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Britten, Emma Hardinge. Ghost Land, or, Researches into the Mysteries of Occultism. Chicago, Ill.: Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1897.

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Butler, Betsy. “‘There Ain't Anything in This World That Sells a Book Like a Pretty Cover’: Nineteenth-Century Publishers' Bookbindings in Library Collections.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, vol. 29, no. 1, 2010, pp. 23–30. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27949535.

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Cooke, Simon. “'A Refined Division of Labour’: The Production of Cloth-Bound Books.” The Victorian Web, 2013, www.victorianweb.org/art/design/books/production.html.

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Cooke, Simon. “The Aesthetics and Economics of Novelty Bindings.” The Victorian Web, 2015, www.victorianweb.org/art/design/books/cooke14.html. 

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 Crabtree, Adam. Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925: an annotated bibliography. White Plains, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1988. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/4478901.

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Crabtree, Adam. Adam Crabtree, adam-crabtree.com/.

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Curtiss, Harriette Augusta, and F. Homer Curtiss. Realms of the Living Dead: A Brief Description of Life After Death. New York: Edward J. Clode, 1918.

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Delgado, L. Anne. “Psychical Research and the Fantastic Science of Spirits.” Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age, edited by Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2017, pp. 236–253. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1qv5ncp.17.

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Freeman, Nick. “Haunted Houses.” The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story, edited by Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston, Routledge, 2018, pp. 328–337.

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Flammarion, Camille. L'inconnu: The Unknown. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900.

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“The Floating Ball Routine: An Excerpt from David P. Abbott's ‘Book of Mysteries.’” This American Life, 7 Dec. 2020, www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/the-floating-ball-routine-an-excerpt-from-david-p-abbotts-book-of-mysteries.

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Flournoy, Théodore. From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism: With Glossolalia. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900.

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“From India to the Planet Mars (1900).” The Public Domain Review, publicdomainreview.org/collection/from-india-to-the-planet-mars-1900.

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Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. "Mesmerism and Spiritualism." The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction. Oxford University Press, September 22, 2011. Oxford Scholarship Online.https://oxford-universitypressscholarship-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320992.001.0001/acprof-9780195320992-chapter-10.

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Harvey, David Allen. “Elite Magic in the Nineteenth Century.” The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present, edited by David J. Collins, S. J., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015, pp. 547–575.

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Hayes, Lee. Bound to Please: The Iconic Victorian Binding in an Era of Industrialization and Mechanization. 10 Aug. – 10 Oct. 2015, University of Adelaide, Adelaide. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/victorian-bindings/.

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Ingram, John H. The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain. London: Gibbings & Co., Ltd, 1901.

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“Introduction: Women in the Haunted House.” The Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories, by Emma Liggins, Springer International Publishing, 2020, pp. 1–39. ​

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Kaplan, Fred. “‘The Mesmeric Mania’: The Early Victorians and Animal Magnetism.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 35, no. 4, 1974, pp. 691–702. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2709095. 

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Lamont, Peter. “Spiritualism and A Mid-Victorian Crisis of Evidence.” The Historical Journal, vol. 47, no. 4, Dec. 2004, pp. 897–920, doi:10.1017/S0018246X04004030.

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Lee, David D. “Flournoy, Théodore.” Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories, Springer, 2012.

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Marini, Francesca. “Exhibitions in Special Collections, Rare Book Libraries and Archives: Questions to Ask Ourselves.” Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues, vol. 29, no. 1-2, 2019, pp. 8–29., doi:10.1177/0955749019876122. 

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Maynard, Nettie Colburn. Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? or, Curious Revelations from the Life of a Trance Medium. Philadelphia: Rufus C. Hartranft, 1891.

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“N. W. Thomas.” [Re:]Entanglements, 26 July 2018, re-entanglements.net/thomas/.

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Nash, John F. “Harriette Augusta Curtiss (1856–1932) and Frank Homer Curtiss (1875–1946).” The Esoteric Quarterly, Summer 2017, pp. 88–93.

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Pincock, Jenny O'Hara. The Trails of Truth. Los Angeles, California: The Austin Publishing Company, 1930.​

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Raymond, Buckland. “Colburn, Nettie.” The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication. Visible Ink Press, 2005, encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Colburn%2c+Nettie.30.

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Silverman, Randy. “Can't Judge a Book without Its Binding.” Libraries & the Cultural Record, vol. 42, no. 3, 2007, pp. 291–307., doi:10.1353/lac.2007.0051.

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Thiemeyer, Thomas. “The Literary Exhibition as Epistemic Method: How the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach Reinterprets Literary Archives.” Word & Image, vol. 33, no. 4, 2017, pp. 362–375., doi:10.1080/02666286.2017.1326787

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Thomas, Northcote W. Crystal Gazing: Its History and Practice, with a Discussion of the Evidence for Telepathic Scrying. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1905.

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Thompson, Robert C. “The Chevalier’s Secret: Emma Hardinge Britten and the Dawn of American Occultism.” Literature and Theology, 2019, doi:10.1093/litthe/frz034. 

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Tromp, Marlene. “Spirited Sexulality: Sex, Magic, and Victorian Spiritualism.” Victorian Literature and Culture, 2003, pp. 67–81.