Parapsyche-Jack Vance novella
Parapsyche -Jack Vance novella Parapsyche was first published in the magazine Amazing Science Fiction Stories in August, 1958. It is a 108/115 page novella and one of Vance's few excursions into parapsychology . Telepathy , clairvoyance, ghosts, ESP and séances with mediums all play a role. Don Berwick has been interested in spiritualism since he saw ghosts as a child. Years later he attended college with the goal of becoming a parapsychologist. After he and his wife find oil on the property they inherited, they decide to establish an institute for psychic research. Berwick's brother in law is a fanatical, bigoted revivalist preacher, named Fighting Joe Bronny , who considers spiritualism and the occult to be the workings of the devil. As Fighting Joe gains followers, he begins to advocate that his followers join him in his "fight" against "atheism," "communism" and "blood pollution." By "fight" he means physica...