From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.

"A dead man wrote my story."  From Fate magazine, 1960.

"We still have a dance to finish" -- a spirit message from 1935.  "Very best 73's" is a bit mysterious.  In morse code, 73 can be an abbreviation for "best regards."  In mathematics, 73 is known as a "star number."

A spirit message from 1910, by a ghost temporarily in heaven.  If we're decoding it correctly, the handwriting reads: "Are you surprised to think I am up here [?] . Their [sic] is eight of us having a good time but expect to go back."

A spirit message from 1935: "Can't think, too dumb, Inspiration won't come, Bad ink, bad pen, Best wishes, Amen."

A spirit message from 1935: "As I said that nite -- 'C'm up'n see me s'm' time' -- when I shan't be able to fall."

Looks spooky but is wonderful news: "I am the Man from Beyond.  I pass on my journey through the world and I secretly promise, by the power that has brought me back to this plane, to shower happiness and good fortune upon all who house me.  —The Man from Beyond."  From The Film Daily, 1922.

"How is the world using you?" -- a spirit message from 1906.

"Have you done clean forgot me?"  A spirit message from 1930.

Have you ever drunk a cocktail whose recipe was dictated by a ghost?  There are 112 spooky drink recipes that were communicated from the Other Side via a Ouija board, collected into Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.  The text on the book's dedication page reads: "This book is dedicated to the presence that inspired it, without whose dictation it would not have been begun, and to whose preternatural knowledge of spirits it owes whatever merit it may possess."

Spirit writing that manifested under an inverted tumbler, wishing that your husband had been here.  From 'Twixt Two Worlds by John Stephen Farmer, 1886.

Here are some spirit squiggles and a message in Hebrew, from A Discussion of the Facts and Philosophy of Ancient and Modern Spiritualism by Samuel Byron Brittan and B. W. Richmond, 1853.

"The letter from the dead."  From The Aztec Treasure-house by Thomas Allibone Janvier, 1890.

Here's a spirit message being developed in a vial.  From Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena by Chung Ling Soo, 1898.  We dedicated one of our books to Chung Ling Soo (and it's one of our very favorite projects to date): Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

A Letter from the Ghost of Mr. S----t, To His Friends: Dispatched to Them After His Arrival at the Invisible World, 1757.  We'll take a s---tty letter any day, considering that most of our friends seem to exist in an invisible world and only communicate in return for sacrifices.

Life Beyond the Grave, Described by a Spirit, Through a Writing Medium, 1876.

Some good news via spirit writing -- "You were troubled once with evil spirits; but now they are no more.  They have bid adieu, and good spirits have come and are with you all the time."  From Modern Spiritualism by Eliab Wilkinson Capron, 1855.

Here's spirit writing promising better days.  "You must not fear, brother, that you will be troubled with evil spirits any more.  No, brother; no more.  [Signed,] Your spirit-sister, Bliss."  From Modern Spiritualism by Eliab Wilkinson Capron, 1855.