The Seance, like its predecessor The Ghost Writer, takes up the bookish thread of classic British supernatural fiction as if it had never been cut by modernity.
Meanwhile, in Dresden, Munich and Berlin, German Expressionism was the cutting edge style, as practised by Die Brucke (1905 - 13) and Der Blaue Reiter (1911 - 14), while in Milan, Futurism introduced its unique blend of movement and modernity.