[Confession of a medium]. ca. 1869.

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[Confession of a medium]. ca. 1869.

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Manuscript volume, perhaps compiled by a New Lebanon, New York, Shaker, contains many Poe-like tales of the macabre featuring spiritualism and death. The supplied title is the title of the first tale. Two other stories are "The Skeleton in the Chapel" and "Entombed Alive in a Dead-House: A Leaf from the Life of a Paris Medical Student." Aside from the spiritualism tie-in to Shakerism, there are two articles copied into this volume that relate to Shaker life: "The Lebanon Shakers," by Henry Vincent and "Creation and the Fall of Man," by Frederick William Evans, a lecture he originally delivered in Boston on November 11, 1868.

[4], 98 p. ; 32 cm.

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