Today I'm showcasing Alan Finn's Things Half In Shadow a haunting look at Philadelphia in 1869 post Civil War when the Spiritualism movement is in global full swing and con-men and women abound under the guise of mediums and seers.
- ISBN-13: 9781476761725
- Publisher: Gallery Books
- Publication date: 12/30/2014
- Pages: 448
Overview
Postbellum America makes for a haunting backdrop in this historical and supernatural tale of moonlit cemeteries, masked balls, cunning mediums, and terrifying secrets waiting to be unearthed by an intrepid crime reporter.
The year is 1869, and the Civil War haunts the city of Philadelphia like a stubborn ghost. Mothers in black continue to mourn their lost sons. Photographs of the dead adorn dim sitting rooms. Maimed and broken men roam the streets. One of those men is Edward Clark, who is still tormented by what he saw during the war. Also constantly in his thoughts is another, more distant tragedy—the murder of his mother at the hands of his father, the famed magician Magellan Holmes...a crime that Edward witnessed when he was only ten.
