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The short story, Nightside, by Joyce Carol Oates, was praised as a bone-chilling example of her great horror writing, specifically on the topic of seances.
And then the greatest short story involving seances in the spiritualist movement written by arguably the greatest American writer of all time, Joyce Carol Oates, it's called Nightside.
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Episode: How Spiritualism Works
The short story, Nightside, by Joyce Carol Oates, was praised as a bone-chilling example of her great horror writing, specifically on the topic of seances.
And then the greatest short story involving seances in the spiritualist movement written by arguably the greatest American writer of all time, Joyce Carol Oates, it's called Nightside.
It's a short story. It's the same title as a collection of her short stories from the 70s, I think 1977, um, Nightside, look it up and thank me later.
It's seriously just bone chilling how good it is.
I would read any of her stories.