The Rag Bone Man [Paperback]

We didnt get to choose the stories we inherit.

The rag and bone man comes meandering along your street in the dawn hours. Hes looking for old things that still have a bit of fat left in them, including off-cuts of outsiders dreams. If you decide to stop and talk to him, he will tell you the old tales of how to tease out the teeming world of spirits that bulges behind our reality.The Rag & Bone Mans uncanny narrative, bookended by historical context and a grimoire inspired by the novel, bridges the gap between old ideas and new paradigms with a watchful eye on historical biases.

In this luminous novel, Lee Morgan covers sensationalism and fraud in nineteenth-century spiritualism and the ways in which we manipulated folklore and magic to cover and recontextualize our wrongdoings. Some ofThe Rag & Bone Mans extra content focuses on the importance of sensory pleasure and alignment with the fetch, while crossing ectoplasmic lines to help you conduct a s?ance. The rag and bone man is a fixture in the novels real-life setting and is included in a performance art installation you can experience through a QR code in the book. Enter the rag and bone man's world if you darebut be warned, the stories he's picked up will break your heart.

Lees writing is a bardic force, a current entirely unto its own yet inextricable from the elegant weavework of his spirits, traditions, communities, and creativity. To engage his research is to engage his art(e), and to engage his art(e) is to engage something no less scholarly and acute. It is this generosity of spirit, of heart, and of imagination which makes everything he writes an invaluable gift to the practitioner and the creator, alike.
Sasha Ravitch, author and educator

Once in a great while, there are books which possess writing so compelling that the reader moves through the page into a sacred space. The narrative greets you like a friend from the paslsÒ