Recollects spiritualist and occult experiences, many of them involving (then very fashionable) Egyptology. ‘ “Judge not that ye be not judged,” has been the rule I have followed in writing these recollections of some of the unusual personalities who have come across my path. I very humbly trust that my readers will follow the same golden rule.’
Cheiro, born William John Warner and taking the name Count Louis Hamon, was an occultist and astrologer. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century he was renowned as a palm reader and fortune teller of prominent people of this era. He spent his final years in Hollywood, seeing as many as twenty clients a day and doing a spot of screenwriting. He predicted his time of death, and on the night, according to his nurse, the clock outside his room struck the hour of one three times.
