A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead

A modest Swedish‑born surveyor turned Cincinnati citizen finds himself the unlikely keeper of a series of messages that claim to come from disembodied spirits. In his own words he recounts a life of honest labor, military service, and a long‑standing devotion to “live uprightly before God and man.” With the financial means and personal integrity he believes required, he offers to faithfully transcribe whatever appears on the slate, preserving each line exactly as it is received.

The volume begins with an extensive errata, a curious list of tiny corrections that hint at the restless, shifting nature of the communications themselves. As the spirits speak, they weave together reflections on love, law, and the human condition, filtered through the narrator’s diligent note‑taking. Listeners are invited into a nineteenth‑century séance of words, where the ordinary world of a photographer‑turned‑scribe meets the uncanny whispers of the beyond.