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      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.

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       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