The Ghost Club, 1882–1936: Strong Bonds, Weak Connections

The Ghost Club was founded to discuss matters spiritual, psychic and occult in 1882 by Spiritualist William Stainton Moses and mystic Alfred Alaric Watts. It was intended as a club ruled by a gentleman’s code of honour—with all matters discussed kept strictly confidential. While maintaining secrecy,...

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1. VerfasserIn: Luckhurst, Roger (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2022
In: Aries
Jahr: 2022, Band: 22, Heft: 1, Seiten: 64-88
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Ghost Club / Archiv / London / Okkultismus / Geschichte 1882-1936
RelBib Classification:AZ Neue Religionen
KBF Britische Inseln
weitere Schlagwörter:B Ghost stories
B Psychical Research
B Ghost Club
B William Stainton Moses
B Spiritualism
B Late-Victorian occultism
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Zusammenfassung:The Ghost Club was founded to discuss matters spiritual, psychic and occult in 1882 by Spiritualist William Stainton Moses and mystic Alfred Alaric Watts. It was intended as a club ruled by a gentleman’s code of honour—with all matters discussed kept strictly confidential. While maintaining secrecy, it also obsessively minuted and documented its discussions, leaving behind thousands of pages of records that have yet to be properly investigated, owing to conditions around their use. This essay is an attempt to examine the importance of the Club, and how it might readjust our understanding of the networks of the London occult in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras.
ISSN:1570-0593
Enthält:Enthalten in: Aries
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700593-02201004