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A Magician Among the Spirits - The World's Greatest Showman Exposes the Tricks of Spiritualists & Mediums
Paperback
Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies GeneralOccult
ISBN13: 9781918219142
Publisher: Cosmic Jive Publishing
Published: Nov 22 2025
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Harry Houdini - the world's greatest magician and escape artist - turns detective of the unseen in A Magician Among the Spirits.
When Houdini lost his beloved mother, he turned to Spiritualism in search of proof that the dead still live-and to discover whether séance rooms might offer a bridge between worlds. What he found instead was deception on a grand scale.
Houdini takes us behind the veil of spiritualist circles, exposing the tricks, illusions, and fraudulent devices that medium after medium used to dupe grieving souls. Drawing upon years of first-hand investigation, he reveals how spirit raps, slate writing, spirit photography, levitations, and ectoplasm tricks were executed-and how even prominent scientists and believers fell victim to these deceptions.
With razor-sharp logic, personal anecdotes, and forensic attention to detail, Houdini dismantles the myths spun by spiritualists and challenges us to question what we accept as proof. A fascinating, fearless expose from a brilliant showman, this is a testament to one man's determination to protect reason, even when faced with grief, illusion, and the promise of contact with the beyond.
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