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Various
The Best Psychic Stories
Published by Good Press, 2019
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EAN 4057664651839
Table of Contents
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