Revelations of the Impossible Piddingtons: Volume 1 (Adventures in Second Sight) - Softcover
Buch 1 von 2: Adventures in Second Sight
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It is 1895. In Revelation of the Impossible Piddingtons, the members of the Bing On tong are convinced that the girl with the green-eyes was a tulku, an occult wraith, when they discover the body of Wong Woon, their master, with a silver dagger in his heart inside his sealed windowless office with its only door still barred from the inside. The girl, a threat to the tong’s opium and slave trade, should have been dead; but it was Wong who was dead and the girl vanished. Only a tulku could have passed through the barred door and out of the grasp of the tong. The Bing On tong was almost right. The girl is sixteen year old Kyame Piddington. Revelations of the Impossible Piddingtons tells the story of her adventurous life as part of The Impossible Piddingtons, a father-daughter second sight act. In the course of the novel, Kyame matures from a frightened eleven year old desperately trying to take her dead mother’s place in the family second sight act, striving to learn the secret silent codes and cues from her father as they travel through the towns and cities of the American west, 1890-1895; to becoming, at sixteen, a tall black-haired green-eyed beauty, an accomplished artist; a mesmerist, whose subtle powers work most of the time; a hardened stage performer experienced in creating psychic illusions; and, as predicted by Dr. Mar Tan, a Chinese astrologer in New York, a young woman with the spirit of an implacable assassin. Revelations portrays Kyame’s growing polished toughness gained from encountering difficult audiences, lusting young men, con men, jadoo-wallahs, hatchet-men, spirit mediums, bank robbers and killers -- along with suffering constant social rejection because she is only a theatre girl, and thus is not acceptable to proper society. Several historical personages appear in the novel, e.g., Collis P. Huntington, the last of the Big Four and the richest man in California -- and the most hated; writer Jack London; and J. W. Cadwell, the greatest traveling mesmerist in America, who becomes, on the death of her father, Kyame’s most trusted friend. In reading Revelations, you will learn how some psychic illusions are done.
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Author of the prize-winning (2013 Christopher Literary Award) The Thought Reader Craze (McFarland). Craze describes the 1870-1910 quest for proof of telepathy as a fact of human nature by scientists and others with the hope that this would provide the first scientific proof of live after death. Craze also tells the story of the creation of the stage mind reading act in 1873 one Monday morning in a Chicago saloon with the subsequent and sometimes bizarre interactions between the performers and the scientists. And finally, the book describes the men, women and children who so successfully hoaxed the scientists. And their original telepathy question still has not been answered. Wiley, a retired high-tech executive, has lectured on the history of mentalism and Spiritualism at the Magic Castle in Hollywood; at the Magic Circle in London; at the annual Meeting of the Minds of the Psychic Entertainers Association; and at other venues. He has written The Indescribable Phenomenon, the 2005 biography of Anna Eva Fay, the woman that magician Harry Houdini called, “…the greatest female mystifier”. Also the Adventures in Second Sight young adult historical trilogy still in progress, the second volume just finished. Another novel, A Spirit of Fraud, an occult historical thriller, featuring Anna Eva Fay as protagonist, will be released this year. He has also written prize-winning mystery short stores, as well as historical articles for a number of journals on such diverse subjects as the Monte Carlo Casino, werewolves, Nellie Bly, and the Fashoda Incident, the last time that the armed forces of Britain and France faced each ready to go to war.
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