John Henry Pepper took a projection invention of Henry Dircks, called The Ghost, with his permission, and made it practical so that it could more easily be performed. He earned a lot of money staging it. Even though Dircks did not want any payments from Pepper, there was a falling out between the two because the invention became known as Pepper's Ghost. Dircks wanted to have his name associated with it. This prompted Dircks to write The Ghost. Pepper's answer to that publication and dispute came almost 30 years later in this work The True History of the Ghost.
He also includes the history and working of Metempsychosis a somewhat similar optical stage illusion.
1st edition 1890, 46 pages; PDF 31 pages.
word count: 22717 which is equivalent to 90 standard pages of text
