Talks with the Dead

About this book

The dead speak, or so the living people who receive their messages believe. Talks with the Dead records conversations in which questions about love, memory and the conditions of another world are answered from beyond the grave.

The accounts belong to the Spiritualist culture of mediumship and purported communication. Their everyday details are often more revealing than the larger claims about celestial order, showing what people most wanted to know about those they had lost. Names, voices and familiar concerns give the distant spirit world an oddly domestic intimacy. The testimony should be understood as the participants' belief, with its accuracy unresolved.