Benson’s mother was Mary Sidgwick, whose brother Henry was a founding member and first president of the Society for Psychical Research.
- Lecturer in Creative Writing and 19th-Century Literature, Aberystwyth University
Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.
Des séances victoriennes de spiritisme à TikTok, les chasses aux fantômes en disent plus long sur les vivants que sur les morts.
From Victorian séances to TikTok, our hunt for ghosts reveals more about the living than the dead.
From haunted houses to villainous vampires, these are the spooky reads our experts just can’t forget.
Ghosts’s mix of humour and poignancy echoes real 19th century attempts to communicate with spirits.
No one languished in bed quite like the Victorians
A raft of horror films remind us of the grip troubled sleep once had on our imaginations.
Dracula’s power is not in his fangs, but in the way he disturbs the sleep of his victims.
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