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It was supremely accomplished as a technical performance, as a piece of inspired mimickry, and as a séance summoning up a sympathetically refashioned ghost of someone who is not, in fact, dead.

Bafta missed their chance to break The Artist's silence 2012

From séance to cryonic suspension, efforts to extend life indefinitely have been foolish, utopian and cruel.

Never Say Die Thomas Meaney 2011

To demonstrate: toward the end of her life, she was left with only a smattering of belongings to remember her glory years: a broken cuckoo clock, a stuffed lion's head, and a purported fragment of St. Peter's finger that had once been "flung at her during a séance," according to a biographer.

Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: The Marchesa Casati, High Priestess of Eccentricity (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010

In "Three Performances in Search of Tennessee," actor James Franco and artist Laurel Nakadate summon the spirit of playwright Tennessee Williams at a séance.

The Short List 2011

To demonstrate: toward the end of her life, she was left with only a smattering of belongings to remember her glory years: a broken cuckoo clock, a stuffed lion's head, and a purported fragment of St. Peter's finger that had once been "flung at her during a séance," according to a biographer.

Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: The Marchesa Casati, High Priestess of Eccentricity (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010

SOURCEBOOKS FIRE will officially launch in spring 2010 with seven titles, including a bestselling paranormal romance series from the UK, a novel based on the true life story of teenage sisters who invented the séance in 1848, a romantic mystery set against the backdrop of the civil war, and a YA supernatural thriller set in New York City, among others.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Snippets 2009

They were unimpressed with what they witnessed – Darwin found the experience "hot and tiring" and left before sparks were seen and rapping heard – but they would have been seriously concerned had they known the future career of a fourth participant in the séance, the classical scholar and psychologist FWH Myers.

John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality 2011

The séance that Charles Darwin attended in January 1874 at the house of his brother Erasmus brought the pioneering biologist together with Francis Galton, eugenicist and one of the founders of modern psychology, and the novelist George Eliot.

John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality 2011

Someone might want to hold a séance to let Dred Scott know.

Matthew Yglesias » Dodd Defends Filibuster, Calls for More “Civility” 2010

To demonstrate: toward the end of her life, she was left with only a smattering of belongings to remember her glory years: a broken cuckoo clock, a stuffed lion's head, and a purported fragment of St. Peter's finger that had once been "flung at her during a séance," according to a biographer.

Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: The Marchesa Casati, High Priestess of Eccentricity (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010