The Occult Review, Volume VIII

About this book

A report of an apparition might stand beside a review of a new book on mystical religion. The Occult Review treated the supernatural as a conversation conducted by people who did not always agree on what they had witnessed.

Volume VIII gathers the journalism, advertisements and scholarly ambitions of the occult revival. The magazine carried accounts of psychic phenomena alongside historical discussions and new publications, creating a record of how these subjects circulated in their own time. An individual number should be read for its precise contents; the bound volume gives the broader picture of a community trying to argue its way towards knowledge of the unseen.