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Ghosts vivisected. An impartial inquiry into their manners, habits, mentality, motives and physical construction. Illustrations from pictures in Old Battersea House.

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First edition, a very readable account of otherworldly encounters, with illustrations by the Symbolist painter Evelyn de Morgan, the author’s elder sister.

Despite professing to be ‘allergic to ghosts’, A.M.W. Stirling (1865–1965) here attempts to ‘review the apparently incomprehensible Psychic incidents which have come under my immediate notice, and have been attested to me by reliable narrators who had individually experienced the occurrences affirmed’ (p. 9).

The nine illustrations on the themes of death and spirituality are reproductions of works by the author’s sister, Evelyn de Morgan, and her uncle, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, all from the author’s private collection at Old Battersea House.

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