The phantasmagoria: From ghostly apparitions to multisensory fairground entertainment by Charles Spence

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The ghost train: a disappearing fairground entertainment by Spence, C

“…The Ghost Train on the fairground connects pre-mechanized ghost shows (such as the Phantasmagoria and Dr. Pepper’s Ghost type illusions) that had been popular in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century, with the increasingly mechanized rides that came to dominate the British fairground circuit during the 20th century. …”

The phantasmagoria: from ghostly apparitions to multisensory fairground entertainment by Spence, C

“…I would like to suggest that the missing link may involve the ghost attractions, such as Dr. Pepper's Ghost (first developed at the Royal Polytechnic Institute in London in the 1860s), and the Phantasmagoria, that were both promoted in fairgrounds across England in the closing decades of the 19th Century.…”

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