When “My Seven Minutes in Eternity”—William Dudley Pelley’s account of his out-of-body/near-death experience—was first published in the March 1929 edition of The American Magazine, it caused a sensation. The issue sold out almost immediately, and so high was the demand that back-issue vendors throughout the country were fetching as high as ten dollars a copy.
As Pelley himself tells it in the “Aftermath”:
“So when an American Magazine could not be procured with the article in it, other publishers began to write the editors, or myself, asking permission to reprint the story in their own magazines and thus supply the demand. As I had written the article to get a great truth out to the public, and not to make money—since I could have written a fiction story in the same time and made twice as much money as I got for “Seven Minutes”—permission was freely given for republication.”
Today, Pelley’s account is just as gripping as it was 90 years ago and we are happy to offer it to new readers in Kindle format.
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When “My Seven Minutes in Eternity”—William Dudley Pelley’s account of his out-of-body/near-death experience—was first published in the March 1929 edition of The American Magazine, it caused a sensation. The issue sold out almost immediately, and so high was the demand that back-issue vendors throughout the country were fetching as high as ten dollars a copy.
As Pelley himself tells it in the “Aftermath”:
“So when an American Magazine could not be procured with the article in it, other publishers began to write the editors, or myself, asking permission to reprint the story in their own magazines and thus supply the demand. As I had written the article to get a great truth out to the public, and not to make money—since I could have written a fiction story in the same time and made twice as much money as I got for “Seven Minutes”—permission was freely given for republication.”
Today, Pelley’s account is just as gripping as it was 90 years ago and we are happy to offer it to new readers in Kindle format.