Harry Houdini Archives - Bone and Sickle

Spook Shows

October 24, 2020 boneandsickle EPISODE, folk theater, Frankenstein, ghosts, Halloween, history, holidays, magic, movies, Spiritualism, Spook Shows, theater

Midnight Spook Shows featured stage illusions borrowing from techniques used in fraudulent seances alongside vaudeville-style comedy and burlesque. Performances were staged[…]

Episode 11: The Dead Speak

October 8, 2018 boneandsickle Arthur Conan Doyle, Edwardian, EPISODE, folk music, Fox Sisters, ghosts, history, horror, Red Barn Murder, Spiritualism, Victorian

The 19th-century Spiritualist movement was rife with fraud and misplaced hopes, but what made people so eager to believe in[…]