The Best Psychic Stories, Edited
by Joseph Lewis French
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About this eBook
- Editor
- French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936
- Title
- The Best Psychic Stories
- Credits
- Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Paranormal fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 36712
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36712
- Release Date
- July 12, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Best Psychic Stories — Edited with a Preface by
- 2.Joseph Lewis French — Editor "Great Ghost Stories," "Masterpieces of Mystery," etc. — Introduction by Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D. — Lecturer in English, Columbia University. Author of "The Supernatural in English Literature," "From a Southern Porch," etc. — BONI & LIVERIGHT NEW YORK — Copyright, 1920, by Boni & Liveright, Inc. — Printed in the Unites States of America
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.INTRODUCTION — THE PSYCHIC IN LITERATURE
- 6.THE BEST PSYCHIC STORIES
- 7.WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG [1] — By Jack London — I — II — III
- 8.THE RETURN [2] — By Algernon Blackwood
- 9.THE SECOND GENERATION [3] — By Algernon Blackwood
- 10.JOSEPH: A STORY — By Katherine Rickford
- 11.THE CLAVECIN, BRUGES [4] — By George Wharton Edwards
- 12.LIGEIA — By Edgar Allan Poe
- 13.THE SYLPH AND THE FATHER [5] — By Elsa Barker
- 14.A GHOST [6] — By Lafcadio Hearn — I — II — III — IV
- 15.THE EYES OF THE PANTHER [7] — By Ambrose Bierce — I — ONE DOES NOT ALWAYS MARRY WHEN INSANE — II — A ROOM MAY BE TOO NARROW FOR THREE, THOUGH ONE IS OUTSIDE — III — THE THEORY OF THE DEFENSE — IV — AN APPEAL TO THE CONSCIENCE OF GOD
- 16.PHOTOGRAPHING INVISIBLE BEINGS — By Wm. T. Stead
- 17.THE SIN-EATER — By Fiona Macleod
- 18.GHOSTS IN SOLID FORM — By Gambier Bolton — Ex-Pres. The Psychological Society, London, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., etc. — CHAPTER I — Working Hypothesis — Conditions — Precautions Against Fraud — The Vapor Stage — The Solid, but Shapeless Stage — CHAPTER II — Tests — Experiment No. 1 — Experiment No. 2 — Experiment No. 3 — Experiment No. 4
- 19.THE PHANTOM ARMIES SEEN IN FRANCE [17] — By Hereward Carrington
- 20.THE PORTAL OF THE UNKNOWN — By Andrew Jackson Davis, "The Seer"
- 21.THE SUPERNORMAL: EXPERIENCES — By St. John B. Seymour
- 22.NATURE-SPIRITS OR ELEMENTALS [18] — BY NIZIDA — The Difference Between Elementals and Elementaries
- 23.A WITCH'S DEN — By Mme. Helena Blavatsky
- 24.REMARKABLE PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES OF FAMOUS PERSONS — By Walter F. Prince, Ph.D. , — Official Investigator American Society for Psychical Research — A Premonition of Sir H. M. Stanley — Coincident Experiences of General Frémont and Relatives — Incidents Related by Dean Hole — Incidents Reported by Serjeant Ballantine — Ben Jonson's Premonition by Apparition — Rubinstein's Death Compact — Previsionary Dream by Charles Dickens
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