A library of the occult that only described the instruments would be half a library. The boards, planchettes, pendulums, amulets, talismans, stones and apparatus described in these chapters are made, one at a time, in the houses below, and each house tells the full history of its own instrument at a length this library cannot. Paranormal Products is the flagship. The Channel is the largest single work. The others are the finest treatment of their subject I know of, and I have looked.
Paranormal Products
The most powerful psychic instruments ever crafted. Use their powers wisely.
The flagship: talking boards gilded in 24 carat, planchettes, dial plates, dowsing rods, pendulum boards and the exotic tier, numbered, cased and entered in a register.
The Channel
The whole history of trance speech, tongues, possession and automatic writing, and how to do it without harm.
Seventeen thousand words on every voice that ever spoke through a human being, from the painted caves to the keyboard, with the method in full and the warnings in fuller.
Talismans
Agrippa's engine, the Key of Solomon, and talismans cut in the planet's own metal at the planet's own hour.
The made object: timed, engraved and consecrated. The seven planetary squares drawn correctly, a working sigil generator, and pieces cut in the planetary hour for your latitude.
Amulets
The protective object in every tradition, and the Naming Commission that finds the one your own people used.
Five thousand years of the object worn against harm, catalogued by people and by purpose, and cast to the museum originals in sterling, bronze and true faience.
Crystals Guru
The lapidary tradition rewritten with the chemistry left in, and the stone kits cut for instruments.
Fifty-two stones with their chemistry, their history, their lore, and exactly what each one does inside an instrument, from the pivot stone of a board to the bob of a pendulum.
Planchettes
The automatic-writing and pointer planchette, its entire history, and seven timbers to choose from.
The little board of 1853 made as it should have been made then: cut to phi in bloodwood, purpleheart and dragon's blood, on brass feet, by the same hand for twenty-three years.
Skeletal Planchettes
The most photographed pointer ever made, and the anatomy and memento mori behind it.
A human hand in bone china, twenty-seven bones modelled from the skeleton, that rides the talking board and taps the letter it stops on. Kept in its Ossuary.
Pendulum Boards
Chevreul's instrument taken seriously: the physics, the uses, and the boards.
Charts laid out with a compass and inlaid rather than printed, a stone at the pivot, and sterling pendulums with every link of the chain soldered shut.
Spiritoscopes
The professor who set out to expose the rappers, the apparatus he built, and its reconstruction.
Robert Hare's instruments of 1855, the first attempt to bring the séance under laboratory control, rebuilt from his own plates for the first time since he died.
Talk to the Dead
The history of necromancy, séance and spirit contact, and the instruments made for it.
Thirty-four thousand years of trying to get an answer from the other side: what was done, with what, by whom, and what came of it.
Psychic Appliances
The honest engineering of every device ever built for the psychic.
What the instruments actually measure: amplifiers, recorders and detectors separated at last, from the scrying mirror to the random event generator.
Jesus Boards
The written sacred word, kept on the wall where the household can see it.
Scripture and prayer lettered by hand onto hardwood: verses, blessings and dedications, in any translation, made to hang in a house for a lifetime.