Summoned to the Seance
Spirit Tales From Beyond The Veil -Edited by Emily Vincent Summoned to the Seance is one of the larger collections from the 'British Library Tales of the Weird' series, contains 12 stories, a chapter from a H G Wells' novel, and an extract from a Robert Browning poem. Edited with an introduction by Emily Vincent, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. Published in 2024. It not really clear if there is such a genre as 'Seance Fiction', distinct from Ghost Stories or Weird / Horror Tales. A common theme would be a seance with a medium, or perhaps someone using a planchette to make a deliberate attempt to contact the Dead. But even then not all the writings on offer here meet the ...