Asa Mahan

Modern mysteries explained and exposed

John P. Jewett & company, Cleveland 1855.

John Timbs

Curiosities of London: exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis

David Bogue, London 1855.

John Wyman

Hand-book of Magic

T.W. Strong, New York 1855.

Robert Hare

Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations

Partridge & Brittan, New York 1856.

Charles Mackay

Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds

Vol. 2, G. Routeledge and sons, London 1856 (I ed. 1841).

Richard James Morrison e Tao-Sze Zadkiel

The royal book of fate: Queen Elizabeth's oracle of future events

Sherwood and co., London 1856.

George Arnold e Henry Llewellyn Williams

The Magician's Own Book or the whole art of conjuring

Dick & Fitzgerald, New York 1857.

Catherine Crowe

The Night Side of Nature. Ghosts and Ghost-seers

Routeledge, London 1857.

John Ayrton Paris

Philosophy in sport made science in earnest

John Murray, London 1857 (I ed. 1827).