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Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe

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In Arthur Shattuck O’Keefe’s debut novel The Spirit Phone, Aleister Crowley and Nikola Tesla confront the enigma of Thomas Edison's new invention: a phone to speak with the dead. The Spirit Phone was published by BHC Press on November 15, 2022.

O'Keefe's short story, “A Spirited Conversation,” based upon The Spirit Phone, appears in the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of The Stray Branch. His short fiction has also appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast, and Ragazine.

He was born in New York and lives in Kanagawa, Japan, where he is at work on his next novel.
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“I am not a stage magician who does sleight of hand. I am a practitioner of - allow me to spell it - m-a-g-i-c-k. Magick. Occult knowledge and powers. Gained by way of tapping into the very wellspring of the universe.”
Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“He senses something wrong. He sees nothing, hears nothing, yet feels surrounded, then enveloped, by a presence of undiluted evil. He is immobilized.

Then a savage merging of oblivion and agony, as if buried alive in a living expanse of living, malignant soil invading the self, violating him, becoming him. Every fiber, every atom, strains with the effort to expel it, to escape.”
Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“He was afraid of the conversation he was about to have, yet he badly wanted to have it. It was like this each time. His hands trembled ever so slightly as he reached into the drawer.

He removed a plain-looking pinewood box. Placing it on the desk in front of him, he opened its hinged top. Inside was a metallic cone inserted into a wooden base, set next to an electromagnet and two dry cells.

He switched it on. Then came the low-pitched hum, and the faint blue aura.”
Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“He senses something wrong. He sees nothing, hears nothing, yet feels surrounded, then enveloped, by a presence of undiluted evil. He is immobilized.

Then a savage merging of oblivion and agony, as if buried alive in a living expanse of living, malignant soil invading the self, violating him, becoming him. Every fiber, every atom, strains with the effort to expel it, to escape.”
Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“The policeman driving the Black Maria brought the horses to a halt near another police wagon just short of the pier. Stern and Donnelly stepped onto the street, its stone paving still wet from a recent rain. The lingering smell of ozone hung in the air. The thunder had been shattering, and Stern was glad they hadn’t had to come out in the storm. He would in theory have preferred a motorized truck, but they were notoriously delicate things, prone to breakdown. At least the models publicly available.”
Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“I am not a stage magician who does sleight of hand. I am a practitioner of - allow me to spell it - m-a-g-i-c-k. Magick. Occult knowledge and powers. Gained by way of tapping into the very wellspring of the universe.”
Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“The dawn of a new era for mankind has arrived. It is now possible to communicate directly with the spirits of those departed from this world, and perhaps even entities of other natures as well. Not by means of the mysticism of seances or Ouija boards or crystal balls, but by technology. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…the spirit phone!”
Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“He was afraid of the conversation he was about to have, yet he badly wanted to have it. It was like this each time. His hands trembled ever so slightly as he reached into the drawer.

He removed a plain-looking pinewood box. Placing it on the desk in front of him, he opened its hinged top. Inside was a metallic cone inserted into a wooden base, set next to an electromagnet and two dry cells.

He switched it on. Then came the low-pitched hum, and the faint blue aura.”
Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

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