The Trance of Marietta Davis: Scenes Beyond The Grave

First published in the mid-19th century, The Trance of Marietta Davis is one of the most extraordinary spiritual narratives of its age—a detailed account of a young woman who, after falling into a nine-day trance, claimed to have witnessed visions of Heaven, Hell, and the fate of the soul beyond the grave.

Dictated upon her recovery and recorded by Rev. J. L. Scott, Davis’s experiences describe celestial choirs, angelic guides, the torments of the damned, and the judgment awaiting mankind. Far more than a dream, her testimony was embraced by spiritualists and religious readers alike as a direct glimpse into the world beyond death.

Part visionary chronicle, part moral warning, Scenes Beyond the Grave presents the unseen realm not as abstraction, but as a vivid and perilous reality, where every choice in life carries eternal weight.

Complete edition of Marietta Davis’s visionary trance narrative

Describes Heaven, Hell, angels, demons, and the afterlife

A foundational text in the history of 19th-century spiritualism and visionary literature

Essential for students of religious visions, afterlife studies, and occult tradition