Sight Unseen by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Fiction, Mystery & Detective

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The room had been dismantled. It opened before us, walls and chimneypiece bare, rugs gone from the floor, even curtains taken from the windows. To emphasize the change, in the center stood a common pine table, surrounded by seven plain chairs. All the lights were out save one, a corner bracket, which was screened with a red-paper shade. She watched our faces with keen satisfaction. Such a time I had doing it! she said. The servants, of course, think I have gone mad. All except Clara. I told her. She’s a sensible girl. Herbert chuckled. Very neat, he said, although a chair or two for the spooks would have been no more than hospitable. All right. Now bring on your ghosts. My wife, however, looked slightly displeased. As a church-woman, she said, I really feel that it is positively impious to bring back the souls of the departed, before they are called from on High.
Oh, rats, Herbert broke in rudely. They’ll not come. Don’t worry. And if you hear raps, don’t worry. It will probably be the medium cracking the joint of her big toe.