International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
Periodical:Facts
Facts: cover of an issue
Summary:
Summary by:
Pat Deveney
Title:
Facts.
Subtitle:
A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Mental and Spiritual Phenomena, Including Psychometry, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Mesmerism, Trance, Inspiration, and Physical Mediumship; Prayer, Mind, and Magnetic Healing; and all Classes of Psychical Effect.
Motto:
Devoted to the Statements of Mental and Spiritual Phenomena / Pledged but to truth, to liberty and law, No favor sways us, and no fear shall awe
Published:
1882-1887
Frequency:
Quarterly, then monthly
Location:
Boston, MA.
Language:
English.
Editor(s):
L.L. Whitlock.
Publisher(s):
Facts Publishing Co..
Succession:
Succeeded by: Soul
Description:

1/1-2 March and June 1882-6/7, July 1887 (last?). $1.50 a year. This was the organ of the most egregiously phenomenal side of spiritualism in the 1880s, opening its pages freely to the likes of J. William Fletcher, Henry Slade, Pierre L.O.A. Keeler, Anna Kimbal, J.V. Mansfield, Mary B. Thayer, James A. Bliss, Henry Rogers, and others. Its theoretical standpoint, to the extent it had one, was given on the title page of its bound volumes: "Prove the Truth of all Science, and we do not know by any other means any Truth; we, therefore, give the so-called Facts of our Contributors to prove the Intellectual Part of Man to be Immortal." In practice, the journal functioned as an advertising vehicle for its contributors, who used its pages to describe the wonders they produced. Whitlock, whose wife was the house medium for the journal, was a long-time publisher who published other journals unrelated to spiritualism both before and after this venture.

Other Sources:Harvard University; Kent State University; University of Texas, Austin; Wisconsin Historical Society; Cleveland Public Library; Kent State University; NSAC Lily Dale (entire run); Wisconsin Historical Society.
Issues:Facts V1 1882 Index
Facts V1 N1-2 Mar-Jun 1882
Facts V1 N3 Sep 1882
Facts V1 N4 Dec 1882
Facts V2 N1 Mar 1883
Facts V2 N2 Jun 1883
Facts V3 N1 Jan 1884
Facts V3 N2 Feb 1884
Facts V3 N3 Mar 1884
Facts V3 N4 Apr 1884
Facts V3 N5 May 1884
Facts V3 N6 Jun 1884
Facts V3 N7 Jul 1884
Facts V3 N8 Aug 1884
Facts V3 N9 Sep 1884
Facts V3 N10 Oct 1884
Facts V3 N11 Nov 1884
Facts V3 N12 Dec 1884
Facts V4 N1 Jan 1885
Facts V4 N2 Feb 1885
Facts V4 N3 Mar 1885
Facts V4 N4 Apr 1885
Facts V4 N5 May 1885
Facts V4 N6 Jun 1885
Facts V4 N7 Jul 1885
Facts V4 N8 Aug 1885
Facts V4 N9 Sep 1885
Facts V4 N10 Oct 1885
Facts V4 N11 Nov 1885
Facts V4 N12 Dec 1885
Facts V4 1885 Wrappers
Facts V5 N1 Jan 1886
Facts V5 N2 Feb 1886
Facts V5 N3 Mar 1886
Facts V5 N4 Apr 1886 Partial
Facts V5 N5 May 1886
Facts V5 N6 Jun 1886
Facts V5 N7 Jul 1886
Facts V5 N8 Aug 1886
Facts V5 N9 Sep 1886
Facts V5 N10 Oct 1886
Facts V5 N11 Nov 1886
Facts V5 N12 Dec 1886
Facts V5 1886 Wrappers
Facts V6 N1 Jan 1887
Facts V6 N3 Mar 1887
Facts V6 N5-6 May-Jun 1887
Facts V6 N5-6 May-Jun 1887 Alternate
Facts V6 N7 Jul 1887