The Peculiar Mystery of a Notorious Victorian Wizard

The Guardian reviews Peter Lamont's The First Psychic: The Peculiar Mystery of a Notorious Victorian Wizard. From the review:

To WE Gladstone, psychical research was "the most important work being done in the world today". With everyone from the Queen to Sheffield miners table-tapping, it was little wonder that Daniel Dunglas Home was the ornament of Victorian spiritualism, a cynosure of psychic fascination. To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Home's eyes were "little phosphorescent lights that come together and dart away again". John Ruskin liked him "exceedingly and he says he likes me". Even Darwin wanted to experiment with this "remarkably liberal" man and his extraordinary powers. Home was able to float out of an upper window and return by another. He could play an accordion without touching its keys, summon disembodied limbs, and handle fire without being burned. And he could do all this in laboratory conditions. Truly he was a miracle-worker of the new age.

You know, The Peculiar Mystery of a Nefarious Victorian Vampire has a certain ring to it.