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.
- Date:
- 2018
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Description
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.
Publication/Creation
Buffalo, New York : Themes & Settings in Fiction Press, 2018.
Physical description
242 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contributors
Edition
First edition, 2018.
Notes
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.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePQQ.AI.AA8-9Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781984128430
- 1984128434