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The Specter from the Magician's Museum (annotations)

A

  • Abbot's (Colon, Michigan)
  • Abbott, Bud
  • American Civil War
  • Anansi (folklore)
  • Anubis (Egyptian deity)
  • Arachne (mythological figure)
  • Ariadne (Greek heroine)

B

  • Barnavelt House (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Barnavelt, Grampa
  • Barnavelt, Jonathan van Olden
  • Barnavelt, Lewis
  • Barnavelt's Trunk, Grampa
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic, The (song)
  • Bessie (Plymouth Cranbrook) (automobile)
  • Blackstone, Sr., Harry
  • Bondini (stage magician)
  • Book of Going Forth by Day, The (book)
  • Book of the Dead, Egyptian (book)
  • Boy Scout Camp (Michigan)
  • Britton, Chad
  • Bromo-Seltzer

C

  • Candelini, The Great (stage magician)
  • Capharnaum County Magician’s Society (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Carronades (cannon)
  • Chamber of Commerce (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Chemical Magic with Everyday Ingredients (book)
  • Chevrolet (automobile)
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Civil War Monument (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Close-up Tricks With Matches, Coins, and String (book)
  • Colon, Michigan
  • Corpse candle
  • Corrigan, Tarby
  • Costello, Lou
  • Cracker Jack
  • Creamy the Magical Clown (stage magician)
  • Cristobal, Michigan

D

  • Detroit, Michigan
  • Doppelganger (spirit)
  • Drueke plastic chessmen

E

  • East End Park (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Eugster Brewery (New Zebedee, Michigan)

F

  • Farmers Seed and Feed (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Fetch (spirit)
  • Fogarty, Mrs.
  • Ford (automobile)
  • Forester, C.S.
  • Forty Years Among the Magicians or, My Friends the Fakirs, the Fakers, and the Fabulous Frauds (book)
  • Fox Sisters
  • Fox, Katie
  • Fox, Leah
  • Fox, Maggie
  • Frisson Grave (Cristobal, Michigan)
  • Frisson, Belle

G

  • G.A.R. Hall (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Gensterblum, James
  • Goodring, Betram "Bertie"
  • Gottschalk, Sue
  • Great Rapiri, The (stage magician)

H

  • Hardwick, Ellen
  • Hardwick, Robert
  • Heemsoth’s Rexall Drug Store (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Henrietta (chicken)
  • Hindoo Fakir, The (stage magician)
  • Homer Road (Capharnaum County, Michigan)
  • Houdini, Harry
  • How to amaze your friends (book)
  • Hydesville, New York

I

  • Invisible Girl (comic)

K

  • Kitchi-Itti-Kippi, Camp (Michigan)

L

  • Last testament of Belle Frisson the greatest sorceress of her age, The (scroll)
  • Leavitt Press (publisher) (Chicago, Illinois)
  • Lepanto, Battle of
  • Lindholm, Timmy
  • Little Duke toy playing cards
  • Little Egypt (dancer)
  • Long Chi, the Chinese Marvel (stage magician)
  • Long nines (cannon)
  • Lord Puzzlewit (stage magician)
  • Lutz, Mr.
  • Lutz, Tom
  • Lyon Lake (New Zebedee, Michigan)

M

  • Macbeth (play)
  • Mackey, Bill
  • Mail Pouch (tobacco)
  • Main Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Mammoth padlocks
  • Mansion Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Marcus the Great (stage magician)
  • Masonic Temple (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • McCandles, Frederick Jeremy
  • McPeters, Edith Arabella Elizabeth Bonny
  • Michigan Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Mingo, Woody
  • Muggins Simoom (automobile)
  • Muller, Lauren
  • Mussenberger, Clarence "Clare"
  • Mystic Marquis and His Thousand Wonders, The (stage magician)

N

  • National Geographic (magazine)
  • National House Motel (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • National Museum of Magic (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Neith (Egyptian deity)
  • New Zebedee Fountain (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • New Zebedee Junior High School (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • New Zebedee Opera House (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • New Zebedee, Michigan
  • Niagara Falls (North America)
  • Nile River

O

  • Old Dutch cleanser
  • Osiris (Egyptian deity)

P

  • P.F. Flyers (shoes)
  • Palomar Observatory, Mt. (San Diego County, California)
  • Perkins, Thomas
  • Pink Pajamas (song)
  • Poltergeist (spirit)
  • Pottinger, George
  • Pottinger, Louise
  • Pottinger, Rose Rita
  • Proctor, Elizabeth

Q

  • Quackenbush, Ben

S

  • Saber Dance (song)
  • Sais, Egypt
  • Savannah, Georgia
  • Scarab
  • Seidler, Baby "Snookums"
  • Seidler, Clara
  • Seidler, Ernst
  • Seidler, Hiram
  • Seidler, Susanna
  • Seidler, Velma
  • Shellenberger, Dave
  • Spider, Spectral Death
  • Spiders (animal)
  • Stone, Johnny

T

  • Tahiti
  • Thailand
  • Twin Oaks Dairy (New Zebedee, Michigan)

U

  • University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana)

V

  • Vicks VapoRub

W

  • Walsh, Chris
  • Walsh, David
  • Westclox alarm clock
  • Westley, Martha
  • White, Ophelia (Miss)
  • Who's on First? (comedy routine)
  • Wilder Creek Park (New Zebedee, Michigan)
  • Will-o’-the wisp
  • Window, enchanted stained-glass (Barnavelt House)
  • Winston, Joseph W.

Z

  • Zenith Stratosphere television set
  • Zimmermann, Florence Helene