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Название: The Best Psychic Stories

Автор: Various

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       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

       Table of Contents

       Author of "The Supernatural in English Literature," "From a Southern Porch," etc.

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      The case for the "psychic" element in literature rests on a very old foundation; it reaches back to the ancient masters—the men who wrote the Greek tragedies. Remorse will ever seem commonplace alongside the furies. Ever and always the shadow of the supernatural invites, pursues us. As the art of literature has progressed it has grown along with it. To-day there is a whole new school of writers of Ghost-Stories, and the domain of the invisible is being invaded by explorers in many paths. We do not believe so much more, perhaps, that is, we do not so openly express a belief, but art has finally and frankly claimed the supernatural for its own. One discerning authority even goes so far as to assert that the borders of its domain will be greatly enlarged in the wonderful new field of the screen.

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