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Journoccultism

Open Secrets September 4, 2025 Christine J. Ferguson

Abstract This chapter examines the significance of the new journalism both for the dissemination of new religious and esoteric beliefs, and for the textual poetics and visionary techniques of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century occultism. Through the work of W. T. Stead, Hannen Swaffer, Arthur Machen, and Charles Fort we trace the emergence of “journoccultism,” a mode which describes...