The Democratisation of the Spook: W. T. Stead and the Invention of Public Occultism
Author
Sausman, Justin
Attention
2299/17936
Abstract
Contribution to a collection of essays published by the British Library marking the centenary of the death of controversial late-Victorian journalist W. T. Stead, the chapter traces the different strategies Stead used in publicising spiritualism to a mass audience.