Published in 1894 | 258 pages | PDF reader required
INDEX
Chapter 1. Mr. Apell's Vision.
- Mrs. G's Story.
- Miss Annie Starbird's Story.
- Told by Mr. John Garnis.
Chapter 2. The Appearance of Departed Spirits.
- My Grandmother's Ghost Story.
- My Own Story.
Chapter 3. Odd Happenings.
- My One Song.
- A Real "Grandfather's Clock."
- What Was It?
- A Warning of Calamity.
- Out of the Body.
Chapter 4. Dopple Gangers.
- An Apparition in Red, Blue and Yellow.
Chapter 5. Somnambulism.
- Mr. Alpheus Bixby.
- Mrs. Brick's Dinner.
- Miss Primula's Acrobatic Performance.
- Above the Whirlpool at Midnight.
Chapter 6. Dreams.
- My Sister's Dream.
- My Mother's Dream.
- A Neighbour's Dream.
- The Persian Rug.
- A Dream of the Fourteenth Century.
- The Finding of the Last Cantos of Dante's Divina Comedia.
Chapter 7. Ghost Stories.
- Mr. Blomgren's Call.
- A Mississippi Pilot's Story.
- Dr. F's Story.
- What a Musician Saw.
- The Ghost in the Back Parlour.
- A Haunted Man.
Chapter 8. A Covington Apparition.
- A Reproachful Ghost.
- A Sorrowful Ghost.
- Poor Hannah Penny.
- The Twins.
- A Pretty Story of Helen Hunt Jackson.
Chapter 9. Nurse Kirkpatrick's Stories.
- How a Spirit Sat for Its Photograph.
- The Story of a Watch.
- A Dream.
- Sister Zelia.
- A Virginia Witch Story.
Chapter 10. Three Celebrated Mediums.
- Miss Edmonds.
- Charles Foster.
- Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane.
Chapter 11. About Babies.
- A Baby Ghost-Seer.
Chapter 12. Planchette.
Chapter 13, Colonel Deyer's Well.
Chapter 14. The Story of Mrs. V.
- Extract From a Letter.
Chapter 15. The Anxious Mother.
- Two Pictures of Heaven.
- The Case of Mrs. Roger Black.
Chapter 16. Mediums of Uncivilised Nations.
- The Kaffirs.
- The Ashantees.
- The Dahomians.
- The Australians.
- The Maoris.
- The Fijians.
- The Abyssinians.
- Spiritual Belief of the Esquimaux.
Chapter 17. Testimony From All Quarters.
Chapter 18. The Belief of Agassizin the Eternal Continuance of Individual Personality.
- Immanuel Kant on the Hope of Immortality.
- Lord Byron on the White Lady of Colalto.
- Mozart's Belief in Omens.
- Mr. Frith's Dream of Dickens.
- Victor Hugo.
- Abercrombie's Opinion.
- A Beautiful Hope of the Theosophist.
- Herbert Spencer.
- The Fathers of the Church.
- Extracts from Hawthorne's note books.
Chapter 19. The Haunted Hearth.
- Sleeping-car Dreams.
Chapter 20. Mystery Stories.
- The Son Restored to His Mother.
- St. Luke, Chapter VII.
