
There's
really only one source of
information I have found about phone calls from the dead. Shockingly,
this is a
book called Phone Calls from the Dead, by D. Scott Rogo and
Raymond
Bayless. Unfortunately, it is out of print, although it's fairly easily
obtained in these modern times from online sources. You can
also
sometimes find it in larger libraries; that's how I first read it.
There is also a book of short stories by Wendy
Brenner
called Phone Calls from the Dead. My previous blurb here has
been
mistaken as a suggestion that people NOT read Ms. Brenner's work.
However, I
am exceedingly sarcastic, as should be apparent, and merely wanted
people to know that there are two books of the same name,
and
therefore be able to get the one that they are seeking.
I personally haven't read the work, but Ms. Brenner
has
told me that her book was inspired by some of the sources mentioned
here, such
as Harper's, and that she borrowed her title from the original Phone
Calls from the Dead. She states, "Since my book is -- obviously --
fiction, no one should be looking to it as a reference text. But on the
other
hand, it represents the interest of another person, like yourself, in
this
intriguing topic. Who knows -- visitors to your website who actually
read
fiction (or write it) might even be interested."
Also,
there are various sources that have little snippets about phone calls
from the
dead. For example, my first contact with it was through Harper's
Encyclopedia
of Mystic and Paranormal Experiences. There are also lots of
one-page deals
on the internet about it. The catch is, all the info in these other
things is
from Rogo & Bayless. In the case of the webpages, most of it
appears to
have been cut and pasted from whichever one of them copied it out of Harper's
first. I've put some in the links section anyway, just because.
There are some other books mentioned by Rogo &
Bayless,
but they are not solely focused on phone calls from the dead, and most
of them
are so old and crusty I've never bothered to hunt them down.
Since first starting this page, I have heard people
say that there are some other books about phone calls from the dead. If
you know of the titles of any of these, please contact and enlighten me.