M. Lamar Keene, "Prince of the Spiritualists," garnered riches and fame as a celebrated medium. He promised clairvoyance and phantom objects, allurement to seances wherein the dead spoke and were touched. Alas, every marvel Keene produced was a sham, a deception on trusting, naive victims. In this enthralling and truthful tome, Keene unveils the secrets of the seance room, including floating trumpets, eerie specters, "spirit sex," and other techniques mediums utilized to deceive believers. Published in 1976 and long since out of print, this classic work is an engrossing, autobiographical narrative of a recognized deceiver who was among the first to own up to his fraudulence.
A Dell Book, Paperback, 1977
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