Death by suggestion : an anthology of 19th and early 20th-century tales of hypnotically induced murder, suicide, and accidental death / edited by Donald K. Hartman.

Hysteria, hypnotism, the spirits, and pornography : fin-de-siècle cultural discourses in the decadent Rachilde / Michael R. Finn.

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Death by suggestion : an anthology of 19th and early 20th-century tales of hypnotically induced murder, suicide, and accidental death / edited by Donald K. Hartman.

Hysteria, hypnotism, the spirits, and pornography : fin-de-siècle cultural discourses in the decadent Rachilde / Michael R. Finn.