London. November 14th, 1877. The Morning Post ran its report on page 4: "High Society Medium Exposed." Before forty witnesses in a private parlor on Albemarle Street, Madame Evangeline's clockwork spirits were laid bare — hidden bellows, mechanical tambourines, a cabinet of ingenious deceptions. Scotland Yard declined to prosecute. London had its scandal, and the drawing rooms moved on.
But the investigating inspector never spoke to the man who built the machinery. He never read the letter Thomas Finch wrote eleven years later, on October 3rd, 1888 — the stage mechanic's private confession to his son, about the night the machinery started on its own, and the medium let herself be destroyed rather than spend one more minute inside that house.
The Seance on Albemarle Street is recovered testimony from The Fading Witness — an audio drama drawn from the faded archives of a London that never quite closed its eyes. Where the record ends, the story begins.
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