ARGONAUT BOOKS

Exploring death, religion, science and social crisis, a startling history of the occult between the world wars, when Spiritualism was truly an international obsession. Reviews 'Raphael Cormack's enthralling Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age makes clear the connections not merely between science and magic but also, more ambitiously, between science, magic and celebrity.'The Wall Street Journal'Fascinating ... Today, "holy men" have mostly been forgotten ... Cormack excavates them from obscurity, stitching together from their misadventures a kind of counterhistor...Read More