The Best Psychic Stories

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"The Best Psychic Stories" by Joseph Lewis French is a collection of supernatural tales likely written in the early 20th century. This anthology explores the theme of psychic phenomena and the connection between the living and the dead, offering a varied selection of stories from notable authors. The text reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural during this time, revealing cultural sentiments surrounding spirit communication and the afterlife. The opening of the collection includes a preface that sets the stage for its subject matter, discussing the history and evolution of the supernatural in literature. It highlights the influence of war and human emotion on the rising interest in psychical research and spirituality. French emphasizes how modern literature has embraced supernatural themes, suggesting that the stories to follow will explore the enduring connection between the earthly and the ethereal. The first story, "When the World Was Young" by Jack London, introduces a mysterious encounter in a darkened forest, setting an ominous tone that foreshadows the unsettling and thought-provoking tales that unfold throughout the anthology. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

When the world was young / Jack London

The return / Algernon Blackwood

The second generation / Algernon Blackwood

Joseph: a story / Katherine Rickford

The clavecin, Bruges / George Wharton Edwards

Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe

The sylph and the father / Elsa Barker

A ghost / Lafcadio Hearn

The eyes of the panther / Ambrose Bierce

Photographing invisible beings / William T. Stead

The sin-eater / Fiona Macleod

Ghosts in solid form / Gambier Bolton

The phantom armies seen in France / Hereward Carrington

The portal of the unknown / Andres Jackson Davis

The supernormal: experiences / St. John D. Seymour

Nature-spirits, or elementals / Nizida

A witch's den / Helena Blavatsky

Some remarkable experiences of famous persons / Walter F. Prince.

Credits:

Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 67.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Release date is 2011-07-12