
Speaker’s Book:
Foucault’s Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
Science vs. Ectoplasm: Your Orifices Aren’t Haunted
Online:
- Harry Price Website
- Helen Duncan: The Official Pardon Site (The true story of a Scottish housewife who found herself in the centre of a WWII legal battle which ended with her being convicted under the Witchcraft Act)
Print:
- Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, by Mary Roach
- Fifty Years of Psychical Research, by Harry Price
- Harry Price: The Psychic Detective, by Richard Morris
Who ya Gonna Call?: Catching up with London’s Original Ghostbusters
Online:
- The Ghost Club
- Britain’s Ghost Club: Keeping a Skeptical Watch – New York Times
- The Ghost Club: A Short History of the Early Ghost Research Group – Prairie Ghosts
- The Ghost Club – A History, by Peter Underwood – Society for Psychical Research
Print:
- The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, by Rosemary Ellen Guiley (PDF available online HERE)
From Abigor to Zaebos: The Dictionnaire Infernal
Online:
- 1863 Dictionnaire Infernal In PDF – All Illustrations Included – OccultCenter
- The Best Demon Illustrations of All Time – Atlas Obscura
- Names of Demons from Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal
Print:
- The Dictionary of Demons: Names of the Damned, by Michelle Belanger
- The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology, by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
- The Key of Solomon the King: Clavicula Salomonis, by S.L. MacGregor Mathers
- The Satanic Bible, by Anton Szandor LaVey
The Haunting of Hamlet, Ghost Detective
Online:
- “Hamlet’s Hallucination” by W.W. Greg in The Modern Language Review – JStor
- The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet – Stephen Greenblatt
- Hamlet’s Hard-Boiled Ethics – James Lewin
Print:
- What Happens in Hamlet, by John Dover Wilson
- Hamlet in Purgatory, by Stephen Greenblatt
- Daemonologie, by James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Online at Archive.org
- Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
The Sexually Repressed & Demon Posessed Nuns of Loudun
Online:
- Pact allegedly signed between Urbain Grandier and the Devil, submitted as evidence during the 1634 Loudun Possession Trial – Columbia College
Print:
- The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley
- Possession at Loudun, by Michel Certeau
- The History of the Devils of Loudun, by Edmund Goldschmid
- A Case of Witchcraft: The Trial of Urbain Grandier, by Robert Rapley
Slain in the Spirit: Faith & the Phenomenon of Spirit Possession
Online:
Print:
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Christopher Reeves, Lindsay Lelivelt,Tania Seabock, David Grosof, Beth Abdallah, and Paige Lawrence. Thank you!