The Feast of Ghosts: Present Tense

The Feast of Ghosts: Present Tense

Present Day, May 2026The Victorian comparison I keep returning to is this: the salons where the wealthy consumed the performance of contact with the dead while the living poor were consuming cholera in the streets below. The performance was elaborate and expensive and...
The Feast of Ghosts: Victorian London

The Feast of Ghosts: Victorian London

London, 1870s and 1880sThe spiritualist salons of Victorian London were one of the more concentrated expressions of a pattern I have watched in various forms across five centuries: the wealthy consuming illusions at the cost of ignoring realities that were not...