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The Spirit Engineer
A Historical Fiction Novel by AJ West
Subgenres:
- Supernatural,
- Based on a True Story
This book is for you if you're into...
- Seances and spiritualism in post-Titanic Belfast
- Scientists unraveling mysteries with real historical figures like Houdini
- Obsession and paranoia blurring the line between science and the supernatural
Belfast, 1914. Two years after the sinking of the Titanic, high society has become obsessed with spiritualism, attending séances in the hope they might reach their departed loved ones.
William Jackson Crawford is a man of science and a sceptic, but one night with everyone sitting around the circle, voices come to him – seemingly from beyond the veil – placing doubt in his heart and a seed of obsession in his mind. Could the spirits truly be communicating with him or is this one of Kathleen's parlour tricks gone too far?
Based on the true story of Professor William Jackson Crawford and famed medium Kathleen Goligher, and with a cast of characters including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, The Spirit Engineer conjures a haunted, twisted tale of power, paranoia and one ultimate, inescapable truth...
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