Letters from a Living Dead Man
Elsa Barker
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Description
Elsa Barker, a novelist, claimed that through automatic writing she received Letters from a Living Dead Man from a deceased Los Angeles judge. Issued in 1914, the letters describe an afterlife from the inside: its landscapes, its laws, and its reunions with those who died earlier. Barker presented herself as amanuensis, not author.
The judge reports learning, work, and continued growth after death, in a world resembling Earth improved. A public hungry for proof of survival, soon to be bereaved by war, read eagerly. Whatever its origin, the book stands as spiritualist literature at its most earnest, and evidence of what 1914 wanted to believe.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Elsa Barker |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 287 KB |
| LICENSE | Project Gutenberg License |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |