THE INDESCRIBABLE PHENOMENON: The Life and Mysteries of Anna Eva Fay - Softcover

Barry H. Wiley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0945296509 ISBN 13: 9780945296508

Publisher: Hermetic Press, 2005

Synopsis

She was one of the most famous and successful mediums and mentalists of the twentieth century. She fooled the best minds of her time. She was, in the words of J. N. Maskelyne... "...a fascinating little blonde." After devoting twenty-eight years of research to her, Barry Wiley has written a biography that is both highly entertaining and thoroughly documented, weaving a story that includes a cast of magicians, mind readers, mediums, scientists, private detectives, frauds, suicides and murderous autopsies. It is a chapter of magic's history not to be missed. On March 31, 1848, a new religion called Spiritualism was born. Less than three years later saw another birth, that of Ann Eliza Heathman to a simple cobbler in Southington, Ohio. While still a child, Annie was told she was a medium for the spirits of the dead, and from that point on she never looked back. Her ability to make people believe she could summon the shades of the departed brought her to the attention of H. Melville Fay, an unscrupulous fraudulent medium (or exposer of fraudulent mediums--whichever was paying best at the time). Under his guidance, Annie conquered America and then Europe, becoming Anna Eva Fay, the girl who baffled William Crookes, one of the most respected scientists of the age.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hermetic Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0945296509
• ISBN 13: 9780945296508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454