Fragment #164

Edmund Gurney (frontispiece).

In June 1888 Gurney apparently received a letter asking him to go to Brighton, which he did, without telling his wife or anyone else the reason. He stayed overnight (and alone) at the Royal Albion Hotel and was found dead in bed the next morning with a chloroform pad over his face. […]

Voir:

• Gurney, Edmund, Myers, Frederic William Henry & Podmore, Frank (1886). Phantasms of the living. London: Rooms of the Society for psychical research; Trübner & co. 
• Gurney, Edmund (1887). Tertium Quid: chapters on various disputed questions. 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & co.
• Hall, Trevor H. (1980). The strange case of Edmund Gurney. London: Duckworth. ISBN: 0715611542.