Hours with the Ghosts by Henry Ridgely Evans

Illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy.

From the preface:

The author has had sittings with many famous mediums of this country and Europe, but has seen little to convince him of the fact of spirit communication. The slate tests and so-called materializations have invariably been frauds. Some experiments along the line of automatic writing and psychometry, however, have demonstrated to the writer the truth of telepathy or thought-transference. The theory of telepathy explains many of the marvels ascribed to spirit intervention in things mundane.

PREFACE
INTRODUCTORY ARGUMENT
PART FIRST. SPIRITUALISM
I. DIVISIONS OF THE SUBJECT
II. SUBJECTIVE PHENOMENA
Telepathy
Table-Tilting—Muscle Reading
III. PHYSICAL PHENOMENA
Psychography, or Slate-Writing
The Master of the Mediums.
Rope-Tying and Holding Mediums
Spirit Photography
Thought Photography
Apparitions of the Dead
IV. CONCLUSIONS
PART SECOND. MADAME BLAVATSKY AND THE THEOSOPHISTS
The Priestess
What is Theosophy
Madame Blavatsky’s Confession
The Writings of Madame Blavatsky
Life and Death of a Famous Theosophist
The Mantle of Madame Blavatsky
The Theosophical Temple
Conclusions
LIST OF Works Consulted in the Preparation of this Volume
1st edition 1897; reprinted as The Spirit World Unmasked in 1902; PDF 123 pages.
word count: 52414 which is equivalent to 209 standard pages of text