PHANTASMS OF THE LIVING
By Edmund Gurney, Frederic William Henry Myers, and Frank Podmore
Abridged by Mrs. Henry Sidgwick
London:
Pale tan offsetting to the endpapers, else a near fine, tight copy in blue cloth with gilt-spine lettering; lacking the dust jacket.
A work on spiritualism by the founding members of the Society for Psychical Research that offers an insight into the Victorian fascination with the occult and supernatural. First published in 1886 in two volumes, this abridged one-volume edition documents hundreds of case studies of ghost sightings.
Chapters include:
"Preliminary Remarks: Grounds of Caution", "The Experimental
Basis: Thought-Transference", "The Transition From Experimental to
Spontaneous Telepathy", "General Criticism of the Evidence for
Spontaneous Telepathy", "Note on Witchcraft", etc. With additional chapters on telepathy, dreams, hallucinations, etc.
Octavo. 520 pages.
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