Eager Dead: A Study in Haunting - Couverture rigide

Roy, Archie E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846241839 ISBN 13 : 9781846241833

Editeur : Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1930 the great Conservative statesman Arthur James Balfour lay dying at Fishers Hill, the Surrey home of his brother, Gerald Balfour. Among those who visited him was the medium 'Mrs Willett' - Winfred Coombe-Tennant - whose powerful vision of a young woman watching lovingly over the ailing politician she subsequently recorded. For a group of psychical researchers, the death of Arthur Balfour marked the culmination of one of the most famous incidents in the history of mediumship - the so-called Palm Sunday Case. In his youth, Arthur Balfour had fallen in love with the vivacious Mary Catherine Lyttelton, only for her to die of typhus on Palm Sunday, 1876, soon after he had decided to propose when next they met. Then, in the early 1900s, a number of mediums began to produce automatic scripts that purported to be dictated by 'entities' from beyond the grave, including Mary Lyttelton. Through a rich skein of poetic and Classical allusions, the souls spoke of survival after death, of Mary's undying love for Balfour and, most mysteriously of all, of a coming saviour who would, they claimed, save the world. In this powerful, meticulously researched study, Archie E Roy explores the personalities of the psychical researchers who devoted their lives to interpreting the Scripts. Using previously unpublished materials from the archives of Jean, Countess of Balfour, he also takes the story forward, examining the continuing resonance of the Scripts and the fate of the men and women whose lives were haunted by their legacy.

Biographie de l'auteur

Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the University of Glasgow, Archie E Roy is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society. He is also a member of the Society for Psychical Research and the Scottish Society for Psychical Research, being a past President of the former and the Founding President of the latter. He is also a member of the International Astronomical Union, which honoured him for his work in astronomy by naming an asteroid after him. For his work in psychical research, the Society for Psychical Research awarded him the Myers Memorial Medal. Professor Roy has published 20 books, six of them critically acclaimed novels, over 70 scientific papers and scores of articles. Several of his books have been published in the United States, France, Russia, Italy and India. He has lectured in many countries, prepared and directed Advanced Study Institutes for NATO, edited journals and newspapers and investigated haunted houses and haunted people.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846241839
• ISBN 13: 9781846241833
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible