Voices: A Doris Stokes Collection

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From the palmist who saw pictures in people’s hands, to the couple whose marriage was predicted by Doris, and the woman who believes she captures departed spirits on camera – the mysterious world of the paranormal, and Doris Stokes’ place within it, continues to unfold. In Voices Everywhere, Linda shines a light on her time working with Doris, right from the very early days when Doris was doing private readings in her Fulham flat, to filling the London Palladium and Barbican night after night, to subsequent fame outside the UK. Copyright © Dark River 2019 Linda Dearsley has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this book.

Other participants included "camp followers", who regularly attended the shows and repeatedly received messages from the same people. When Terry, her adopted son, passed on a few years later there wasn’t even enough money to bury him and Psychic News ran an appeal to give him a decent funeral. I watched Doris Stokes on the TV many years ago and I think she gave a lot of comfort to many people.The two of them were walking across the yard, criss-crossed with washing lines and flapping laundry when I arrived. Her thirteen or so cancer operations included a mastectomy, and the April 1987 removal of a brain tumour, after which she did not regain consciousness. From letters signed by Disney himself to classic children’s books or ephemera, be sure to check out some of the collectible Walt Disney books on Biblio! This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that it which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. However, when the participants were questioned after the performance, it turned out that each of them had been invited by Stokes.

She was given a message supposedly from her husband, who had died less than a month earlier, telling her that he supported her decision to turn off his life support machine. The morning I was going to e-mail them to him, I woke up thinking about the ‘voices books’ and how clever Doris’ publishers had been to think of so many permutations – Voices in My Ear, Joyful Voices, Whispering Voices, Voices of Love, etc.Stokes had spoken to Dawn by telephone, offering commiseration and asking to be updated with the results of the tests that would determine whether Dawn's husband lived or died. Quite a culture shock for the mainly young, mainly female employees so abruptly torn from the magazine’s previous HQ in genteel Covent Garden. And all this, despite the fact that in the media the accepted view seems to be that the supernatural is (obviously) at best a joke, at worst a primitive superstition.

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This second collection of her bestselling books brings together many more of her remarkable and moving experiences. Sequel volume in the autobiography of a medium who has been able to solve real life mysteries, murders and to predict events. Stokes's death coincided with the publication of Catholic author Ian Wilson's 1987 book, The After Death Experience, in which he presented a detailed exposé of her methods. It turned out that though Doris had been living in Lancaster; she was born and brought up in Grantham and never quite lost the accent.