The first full-length biography of Frederic W.H. Myers, unjustly neglected Victorian classicist, poet and psychologist, whose systematic and pioneering exploration of nineteenth-century spiritualism, mesmerism and related phenomena convinced him of the reality of life after death. Precursor of Freud and Jung in the study of subliminal consciousness Leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research Author of a neglected masterpiece: Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death Friend or associate of the Victorian great and good Investigator of uncanny psychical phenomena like the Cheltenham Ghost His alleged post-mortem return as evidenced by the Cross-Correspondence automatic writings The book is both a dispassionate study of Myers' evidence for life after death and an exercise in biography and social history.