"Has Iceland proved that ghosts exist?"  From Ghost Stories, 1927.

From The Spiritualist, 1878.

"Vibrations, impulses, emanations, I feel them all around."  From Canada's answer to Dark Shadows, Strange Paradise episode 41.

"Do you mind if we invite a few spirits into your house?"  From Dark Shadows episode 860.

From Earlham College's 1961 yearbook.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

The psychic hostess as a social menace.  From the New Yorker, 1927.  [Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]

The astral head: "No fully physical head was in existence at time of photographic exposure."  From The Mediumship of Jack Webber by Harry Edwards, 1941.

During a seance, a rapping table tapped out, "For—God's—sake—help—me!"  From Ghost Stories, 1927.

From Fate Magazine, 1952.

How could a seance parlor floorplan be applicable to one's own living space?  The surprising answer is within Seance Parlor Feng Shui.  From Psychic Science, 1932.

"The table kept tilting towards me."  From The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith, 1892.

"Seances come, seances go, but death goes on forever."  From Canada's answer to Dark Shadows, Strange Paradise episode 32.

"The room where the 'independent voice' experiments were made."  From The Psychic Riddle by Isaac Kaufman Funk, 1907.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

"It wasn't a fact.  A very disturbed woman said it at a seance."  From Dark Shadows episode 1003.

From 1887.

"Telling of the absent."  From Hypnotism: Its Facts, Theories and Related Phenomena by Carl Sextus (1893).  See also Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.