The Spirit World Unmasked

An exposé of the séance room: slate writing, spirit cabinets, materialisations and the other tricks of fraudulent mediums, explained by a historian of magic. This scan is a 1902 printing with its striking original cover.

Henry Ridgely Evans, 1897. Complete 320-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.