Deja Vu: Seances = 19th C Twitter

While I was promoting WE HEAR THE DEAD in the early months of 2010, I had a startling revelation about the role played by séances in the 19t...

What About Kate?

In writing We Hear the Dead , it became necessary for me to focus on one of the two Fox sisters. Maggie was my obvious choice, because she w...

A Spirited Hoax -- Part 2

With little more than a clever prank, two adolescent girls hornswoggled scores of adults into believing they had a special power to communic...

A Spirited Hoax -- Part 1

Uncle Albert, are you with us? Knock twice for yes ... It's a recurring theme in popular media. Whether Patricia Arquette is solving cri...