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• Blithe Spirit

  An Improbable Farce in Three Acts

  Coward, Noël, 1899-1973

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  The script of BLITHE SPIRIT, for your reading pleasure.

• I'll Be Waiting

  a Novel

  Armstrong, Kelley

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  Outliving the expectations of her cystic fibrosis diagnosis, Nicola marries Anton, but after his death in a car crash goes viral as a supernatural event, a group of spiritualists offering closure hold a seǎnce that unleashes a terrifying…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Other Side of Mrs. Wood

  a Novel

  Barker, Lucy, (Author),

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  To defend her craft and livelihood, Mrs. Violet Wood must outsmart a newspaperman intent on exposing false mediums.

• Blithe Spirit

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  This 2020 British film adaptation of BLITHE SPIRIT stars Judi Dench as the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti and Dan Stevens as Charles Condomine.

• Take Back the Magic

  Conversations With the Unseen World

  Finn, Perdita

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  Finn, cofounder of the Way of the Rose ecofeminist community, explains in this fine-grained account how she repaired her fraught relationship with her brilliant and sullen father after his death. (Publishers Weekly)

• Ghosts. [Season 1]

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  BBC sitcom Ghosts follows the undead denizens of a crumbling country mansion whose "afterlives are thrown into turmoil when young urban couple Alison and Mike unexpectedly inherit the peaceful derelict house and plan to turn it into a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Séances

  a Guide to Divination and Speaking to Spirits

  Goodchild, Claire (Artist)

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  Tarot artist Goodchild delivers a generous grab bag of strategies for connecting with the spirits of the dead. (Publishers Weekly)

• Spirit Talker

  Indigenous Stories and Teachings From a Mi'kmaq Psychic Medium

  Leonard, Shawn

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  In this teaching memoir, Shawn Leonard shares his personal story of developing his abilities as a spirit talker, revealing incredible stories from his childhood to the present. Along the way, he shares experiences he has had with elders…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Calling the Spirits

  a History of Seances

  Morton, Lisa, 1958-

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  Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer's Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism, when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the séance was born. (publisher's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit

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  Released a few years after BLITHE SPIRIT's theatrical debut in 1941, this 1945 film adaptation stars Rex Harrison as Charles Condomine.

• The London Séance Society

  Penner, Sarah

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  In this spellbinding tale, two daring women hunt for truth and justice through the perilous art of conjuring the dead.

• Hazardous Spirits

  a Novel

  Salam, Anbara

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  In 1920s Scotland, the ordinary life of young wife Evelyn is upended when her husband, Robert, claims he can communicate with spirits. (Library Journal)

• The Haunting of Alma Fielding

  a True Ghost Story

  Summerscale, Kate, 1965-

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  The Edgar Award-winning author of The Wicked Boy documents the story of 1930s Hungarian ghost hunter Nandor Fodor and the traumatic details surrounding the case of a London housewife's bizarre supernatural experiences. (Novelist)

• To a Skylark | The Poetry Foundation

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  The title of BLITHE SPIRIT was inspired by the first line of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark:" "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!"

• Seattle Rep's BLITHE SPIRIT website

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  When Charles arranges a séance in his home as research for his upcoming novel, scatterbrained psychic Madame Arcati accidentally summons the spirit of his late wife, Elvira—which infuriates his current wife, Ruth. Charles suddenly finds…Read moreRead more of this annotation