>Does anyone know anything -- or better yet, has anyone written anything --
>about this novel? The claim was that MT dictated it posthumously through a
>Ouija Board:
>
>
>Hutchings, Emily Grant. "The Coming of Jap Herron."  Jap Herron.  A Novel
>Written from the Ouija Board.  New York: Mitcjell Kennerly, 1917.
>


see  Alan Gribben's essay, "'When Other Amusements Fail':  Mark Twain and
the Occult."  In The Haunted Dusk:  American Supernatural Fiction,
1820-1920.  Ed. Howard Kerr et al. Athens:  U of Georgia P, 1983.  169-190.




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