The Best Psychic Stories
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The Best Psychic Stories
Edited with a Preface by
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
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE PSYCHIC IN LITERATURE
THE BEST PSYCHIC STORIES
WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG[1]
I
II
III
THE RETURN[2]
THE SECOND GENERATION[3]
JOSEPH: A STORY
THE CLAVECIN, BRUGES[4]
LIGEIA
THE SYLPH AND THE FATHER[5]
A GHOST[6]
I
II
III
IV
THE EYES OF THE PANTHER[7]
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
THE SIN-EATER
GHOSTS IN SOLID FORM
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]
THE PORTAL OF THE UNKNOWN
THE SUPERNORMAL: EXPERIENCES
NATURE-SPIRITS OR ELEMENTALS[18]
The Difference Between Elementals and Elementaries
A WITCH'S DEN
REMARKABLE PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES OF FAMOUS PERSONS
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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