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:

• 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:

• What is Spirit Possession? Defining, Comparing, and Explaining Two Possession Forms – Emma Cohen

Print:

• Drawing Down the Spirits: The Traditions and Techniques of Spirit Possession, by Kenaz Filan

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!