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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

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, 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