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Death by suggestion : an anthology of 19th and early 20th-century tales of hypnotically induced murder, suicide, and accidental death
- Title
- Death by suggestion : an anthology of 19th and early 20th-century tales of hypnotically induced murder, suicide, and accidental death / edited by Donald K. Hartman.
- Publication
- Buffalo, New York : Themes & Settings in Fiction Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hartman, Donald K.
- Description
- 242 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This collection of stories of hypnotically induced murder, suicide, and accidental death ranges from plausible to preposterous. The introduction by the editor gives a brief overview of the history of hypnosis and of death by the power of suggestion.
- Series Statement
- Hypnotism in Victorian and Edwardian era fiction ; volume 1
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Note
- Includes bibliographical and biographical notes.
- Contents
- The tragedy of the wedding / Stanley Percival -- The Irishman's story / Julian Hawthorne -- Suggested suicide / Erckmann-Chatrian -- John Barrington Cowles / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Hypnotism with a vengeance / Ichor -- A scientific revenge / Marie Madison -- How I committed my murder / H. Thomlinson -- An adventure in Brownville / Ambrose Bierce -- Paul Vargas: a mystery / Hugh Conway -- The harmony of horror... / Havelock Ettrick -- The mystery of Turkentyne / Julian Hawthorne -- The lion-tamer / Dora Sigerson Shorter -- The higher hypnotism / Charles Fleming Embree -- Suggestion -- The hypnotist / Ambrose Bierce -- The crime of the Rue Auber / J.E. Muddock -- A queer coincidence / Charles B. Cory -- Philip Darrell's wife / B.L. Farjeon -- A moral murder: hanged on circumstantial evidence -- A hypnotic crime / Willard Douglas Coxey -- The playwright's story -- My hypnotic patient / L.T. Meade.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-3016
- ISBN
- 9781984128430
- 1984128434
- OCLC
- 1057444898
- Title
- Death by suggestion : an anthology of 19th and early 20th-century tales of hypnotically induced murder, suicide, and accidental death / edited by Donald K. Hartman.
- Publisher
- Buffalo, New York : Themes & Settings in Fiction Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Hypnotism in Victorian and Edwardian era fiction ; volume 1
- Added Author
- Hartman, Donald K., editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-3016