A review: “Houdini and Spiritualism”
Reading Time: 5 minutes – REVIEW – The book’s most diverting chapter is a bit of fiction. In “The Adventure of the Empty Chair,” Sherlock Holmes unveils a secret of Spiritualism and foils a demonic plot.
Act I, Scene 1: Meeting the ‘Margery’ characters
Reading Time: 6 minutes -WRITING LIFE- Creating a cast for a one-act play about the medium who baffled Houdini seemed simple–until research showed there was more to the story.
Act I: The curtain rises
Reading Time: 4 minutes — WRITING LIFE — Wanting to trod the boards with playwright Henry Fielding, I take my story about Houdini and Margery to my first playwriting class.
In pursuit of ‘The Witch of Lime Street’
Reading Time: 4 minutes – REVIEW -To tell the whole story of the Margery mediumship would require voluminous research: newspaper coverage, personal correspondence and university archives, museum collections, stories told and retold by friends and family. I would never have the time or the scholarship to pull off a project like this one. Fortunately, someone finally did.
New Thoughts on Memorial Day
Reading Time: 3 minutes – COMMENTARY -For the first time in generations, we all have had a taste of what it’s like to be without the rights we have taken for granted.