Calling the SpiritsFrom Halloween expert Morton, a level headed and entertaining history of our desire and attempts to hold conversations with the dead. Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer's Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the sance was born. Among our cast are the Fox sisters, teenagers surrounded by 'spirit rappings'; Daniel Dunglas Home,