Non-Fiction on Victorian Spiritualism
1. 
Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
by:
Deborah Blum
3.69 avg rating — 1,177 ratings 2. 
Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead
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Christine Wicker
3.49 avg rating — 1,346 ratings 3. 
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull 3.93 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism
by:
Barbara Weisberg
3.60 avg rating — 668 ratings 5. 
A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters
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Peter H. Aykroyd
3.38 avg rating — 452 ratings 6. 
The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England
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Alex Owen
3.99 avg rating — 141 ratings 7. 
Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America
by:
Molly McGarry
4.14 avg rating — 73 ratings 8. 
The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
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Peter Manseau
3.45 avg rating — 1,090 ratings 9. 
Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini 3.46 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored
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Mary Gabriel
3.67 avg rating — 433 ratings 11. 
Servants of the Supernatural: The Night Side of the Victorian Mind
by:
Antonio Melechi
3.08 avg rating — 51 ratings 12. 
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
by:
Ann Braude
4.04 avg rating — 268 ratings 13. 
The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World
by:
David Jaher
3.42 avg rating — 2,221 ratings 14. 
Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism
by:
Robert S. Cox
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings 15. 
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.21 avg rating — 4,819 ratings 
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Messages from Beyond: Spiritualism and Spiritualists in Melbourne's Golden Age 1870-1890
by:
Alfred J. Gabay
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 18. 
Philadelphia Spiritualism and the Curious Case of Katie King
by:
Stephanie Hoover
3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings 19. 
Medical Meddlers, Mediums and Magicians: The Victorian Age of Credulity
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Dr Keith Souter
3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Through a Glass, Darkly: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Quest to Solve the Greatest Mystery of All
by:
Stefan Bechtel
3.89 avg rating — 103 ratings 
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The Girls Who Talked to Ghosts: The Story of Katie and Margaretta Fox
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I.G. Edmonds
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 25. 
Mediums, and spirit-rappers, and roaring radicals;: Spiritualism in American literature, 1850-1900
by:
Howard Kerr
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 26. 
Celestial India: Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism
by:
Isaac Lubelsky
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 26. 
Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey
by:
Melissa Daggett
3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings 26. 
Phantasms of the Living (Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge) (Volume 1)
by:
Edmund Gurney
4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings 26. 
Upstate Cauldron: Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State
by:
Joscelyn Godwin
4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings 30. 
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Boston in the Golden Age of Spiritualism: Séances, Mediums & Immortality
by:
Dee Morris
3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings 33. 
Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture
by:
Simone Natale
3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings 34. 
The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer
by:
Louis Kaplan
3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings 35. 
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Final Séance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle
by:
Massimo Polidoro
3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings 
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The Unhappy Medium: Spiritualism and the Life of Margaret Fox liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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People from the Other Side: A History of Spiritualism
by:
Maurice Leonard
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America
by:
Peter Washington
3.67 avg rating — 237 ratings 41. 
Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction
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Jen Cadwallader
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Talking to the Other Side: A History of Modern Spiritualism and Mediumship: A Study of the Religion, Science, Philosophy and Mediums that Encompass this American-Made Religion
by:
Todd Jay Leonard
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings 45. 
Spiritualism in Antebellum America (Religion in North America)
by:
Bret E. Carroll
3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings 46. 
Plato's Ghost Spiritualism in the American Renaissance (AAR Theory and Reflection Series)
by:
Cathy Gutierrez
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 47. 
The Occult in Nineteenth-Century America
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Cathy Gutierrez
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
by:
John Gray
3.63 avg rating — 438 ratings 
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Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by:
Ruth Brandon
3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings 53. 
Anatomy of a Seance: A History of Spirit Communication in Central Canada 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance: Mediums, Spiritualists and Mesmerists in Performance
by:
Amy Lehman
4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings 55. 
Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings (The Nineteenth Century Series)
by:
Sarah Willburn
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 56. 
The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult
by:
Tatiana Kontou
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 57. 
Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism
by:
Marlene Tromp
3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings 58. 
The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern
by:
Alex Owen
4.22 avg rating — 99 ratings 59. 
Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography
by:
Martyn Jolly
3.98 avg rating — 42 ratings 60. 
The Trial of Woman: Feminism and the Occult Sciences in Victorian Literature and Society
by:
Diana Basham
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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The death-blow to spiritualism: being the true story of the Fox sisters, as revealed by authority of 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850-1939 (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 25)
by:
Georgina Byrne
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 64. 
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The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull 4.12 avg rating — 94 ratings
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In Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, and American Culture 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear: Agitator for the Spirit Land 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Spiritualism and Women's Writing: From the Fin de Siècle to the Neo-Victorian
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Tatiana Kontou
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Cassadaga: The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community
by:
John J. Guthrie
3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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Independent spirits: Spiritualism and English plebeians, 1850-1910 (History workshop series)
by:
Logie Barrow
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 80. 
Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by:
John J. Kucich
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 
