SCOOTER KING UNDERSTANDS illusions. In the midst of the Roaring Twenties, he performs them behind the scenes at his mother’s séances, giving the impression t

Constance takes her grieving mother to a séance which leads to tragic consequences and a legacy that will blight her life.

The seance started as a game, but it led to murder and terror for the people of a small east Texas community.

Translated by from Yiddish by Roger H. Klein and others.

Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a group of men and women who sought to transform the seance into a laboratory of the spirits and a transnational empir