Description: An international history of the uncanny in the 1920s and 1930s.
Brief description: Raphael Cormack is an award-winning editor, translator, and writer. The author of Midnight in Cairo, Cormack is assistant professor of modern languages and cultures at Durham University in the United Kingdom.
Review Quotes: Raphael Cormack revisits the early-20th-century golden age of spiritualism to uncover the stories of two little-remembered Arab mystics who combined science and esoteric faith to explain a world in flux.-- "Publishers Weekly"