They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate psychicism, can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.

Let's look at the facts of the case before deciding.

By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.

Isak Guerrere, the handsome, uberfamous fashion designer who had owned and lost his own line many times and had become single-name famous for being Isak more than anything else.