Fairhope author Terry Cline has a new book out this month that resurrects one of Alabama’s strangest homegrown legends: Edgar Cayce, the Kentucky-born psychic whose early years included nearly a decade in Selma.
The Return of Edgar Cayce is structured around a simple premise — Cline answers questions as he imagines Cayce would have. Cayce (1877–1945) claimed the ability to enter a hypnotic trance and channel answers on subjects ranging from healing to Atlantis, earning the nickname “the Sleeping Prophet.” Less well remembered is his Alabama chapter: from 1912 to 1923, Cayce lived in Selma, where he operated a photography studio while developing the trance readings that made him famous.
A 99-Cent Kindle Release
The book goes on sale Saturday, June 25, 2011, exclusively on Amazon’s Kindle platform, priced at just 99 cents — a deliberately low price point aimed at building readership quickly in the fast-changing e-book market.
Cline is part of Fairhope’s productive Eastern Shore literary scene, a Baldwin County town long associated with writers, and his latest title blends that regional literary tradition with speculative fiction rooted in real Alabama history.