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Various. The Best Psychic Stories
The Best Psychic Stories
Table of Contents
Introduction by Dorothy Scarborough, PhD
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
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
THE PSYCHIC IN LITERATURE
THE BEST PSYCHIC STORIES
By Jack London
I
II
III
By Algernon Blackwood
THE SECOND GENERATION[3]
By Algernon Blackwood
JOSEPH: A STORY
By Katherine Rickford
THE CLAVECIN, BRUGES[4]
By George Wharton Edwards
LIGEIA
By Edgar Allan Poe
THE SYLPH AND THE FATHER[5]
By Elsa Barker
A GHOST[6]
By Lafcadio Hearn
I
II
III
IV
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
PHOTOGRAPHING INVISIBLE BEINGS
By Wm. T. Stead
THE SIN-EATER
By Fiona Macleod
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
THE PHANTOM ARMIES SEEN IN FRANCE[17]
By Hereward Carrington
THE PORTAL OF THE UNKNOWN
By Andrew Jackson Davis, "The Seer"
THE SUPERNORMAL: EXPERIENCES
By St. John B. Seymour
NATURE-SPIRITS OR ELEMENTALS[18]
BY NIZIDA
The Difference Between Elementals and Elementaries
A WITCH'S DEN
By Mme. Helena Blavatsky
REMARKABLE PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES OF FAMOUS PERSONS
By Walter F. Prince, PhD.,
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
