If Not Beings from Another Life, What Are They

Author: Edward Augustus Brackett

Language: English

Published: 1885

Written at intervals from the pressure of business, and at times that should have been devoted to recreation, these pages make no claim to artistic arrangement or literary merit. If they enable any one to arrive at a clearer and better appreciation of the wonderful phenomena of which they treat, they will have accomplished all that was intended.

Author: Mary Johnston

Language: English

Published: 1914

In this important new novel, Miss Johnston goes back to the field of some of her earlier successes -- the spacious Elizabethan times. The story opens in the death chamber of the great Queen, and with that uncanny power of historic resurrection of which Miss Johnston is master, the reader is made to feel the great issues that are hanging in the balance, -- issues of thought and faith within England itself, issues of imperialistic destiny in the great colonies overseas.The two chief characters are Joan Heron, a beautiful girl of strong, original nature, and Dr. Aderhold, a thinker in advance of his time. As the plot develops, not only is Aderhold suspected of atheism and unholy practices in the black art, but Joan is accused of witchcraft. They are arrested, and sentenced to death, but escape, and take ship for Virginia. As the voyage progresses, her sex and identity are suspected, and she and Aderhold are cast adrift in an open boat. This catastrophe, however, is not final, and in the Bahamas and later in England, the story comes to its impressive ending.As a historic picture, the story is exceptionally strong, and perhaps the impression that will live longest is that of the marvelous Elizabethan world of adventure, controversy, passion, and vital personality.

Author: Mildred A. Wirt

Language: English

Published: 1947

While out skiing at night, Penny, Louise, and Jerry hear strange sounds coming from a nearby monastery. They discover that a religious cult is living at the monastery. Penny tries to learn more about the cult, but the leader is very secretive. When Penny learns of a missing woman who is interested in cults, she becomes convinced that there is a connection. Penny masquerades as one of the cult members and learns the secret of the strange cult.

Language: English

Published: 1922

Language: English

Published: 1923

Withan introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Author: Emily Grant Hutchings

Language: English

Published: 1917

A novel purported to have been dictated to the author from beyond the grave by the deceased Mark Twain through use of a Ouija board.

A Tale of the Rise and Fall of Anti-Christ

Author: Marjorie Bowen

Language: English

Published: 1909

or, A Spirit in Exile

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Language: English

Published: 1893

An extravaganza that ranges all the way from dry Stocktonian humor to roaring farce. The central idea is that of the exchange of souls between bodies, and we may easily imagine the opportunities it offers a writer intent only upon the possible humorous complications. The "client" is an exiled spirit whose body is occupied by a usurping fiend, and who engages Toppleton (a lawyer whose chief work of reference is the "Comic Blackstone") to possess him once more of the bodily estate that he has lost. But the fiend is too sharp for the lawyer, and, preferring Toppleton's corporeal tenement to that in which he has been fraudulently dwelling, effects a substitution, and leaves Toppleton helpless, either to protect the rights of his client or to re-establish his own.

A Novel

Author: George Long

Language: English

Published: 1907

The curtain is rung up, and immediately strange events take place: there comes upon the world 'a great and vast upheaval of Nature,' the result of which is to annihilate all countries on the earth save Great Britain and New Zealand. All the Britishers, save a mere handful, die off almost immediately, as a direct result of lack of food supplies; but those who are spared alive are assisted by spirits (celestial, not alcoholic), and are enabled to do practically everything they wish. From this startling opening one proceeds to further marvels, all related with energy and seriousness. Those to whom incident is the main feature in fiction will be delighted with Mr. Long's romance.

Author: Algernon Blackwood

Language: English

Published: 1916

A woman and two men who have come together in a former incarnation--not altogether happily--now have a second opportunity to work out the problem of their relations. A philosophical romance.

Language: English

Published: 1908

A strong tale of the supernatural.

Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters, as revealed by authority of Margaret Fox Kane and Catherine Fox Jencken.

Author: Rueben Briggs Davenport

Language: English

Published: 1888

With the full consent of Margaret Fox-Kane and Catherine Fox-Jencken, the well-known Fox sisters, who originated the so-called spirit rappings, Mr. Reuben Briggs Davenport has produced " The Death-Blow to Spiritualism,' giving a true account of their connection with the imposture. Both of these women now denounce spiritualism as founded on fraud, and have declared their intention to devote the remainder of their lives to undoing the evil they have committed. In pursuance of this resolve, Mrs. Kane told a New York audience the true story of the deception she had begun to practice more than forty years ago. Mr. Briggs's narrative is clear and forcible, and ought to carry conviction to every unprejudiced mind.

Language: English

Published: 1922

A sensitive young man is sustained through his barbaric schooling by thoughts and memories of the Holy Grail kept secret in his Welsh homeland. He embarks on a journey to find the Holy Grail and to become a Celtic mystic like his forefathers, when the book ends abruptly with a report of his death.

Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Language: English

Published: 1869

This brief story is full of pathos, genius, and theology. It is what the Germans call "a story with a tendency;" in other words, a story designed to establish and enforce an opinion. But notwithstanding this, it is not without great merit in plot and character. Perhaps the most remarkable feature is the truth and power with which the feelings are portrayed of one who has lost a nearest and dearest friend. The skill with which the doctrine of the story is defended, and the narrowness of extreme Orthodoxy is set forth and illustrated, is admirable in its way, and is at times irresistible. The gentle and human Christian faith and hope, which are everywhere inspired,—a faith and hope which walk firmly in the rough pathway of earthly duty and sacrifice, while yet "the sufferer constantly looks serenely and almost seraphically into the world of spirits—give to the book its crowning grace and its surpassing excellence. The defects which a critical judgment might detect, are lost sight of in the comparison with its manifold excellencies.

Author: Mrs George de Horne Vaizey

Language: English

Published: 1911

Language: English

Published: 1907

What is 'Popular Poetry'?
Speaking to the Psaltery
Magic
The Happiest of the Poets
The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry
At Stratford-On-Avon
William Blake and the Imagination
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy
Symbolism in Painting
The Symbolism of Poetry
The Theatre
The Celtic Element in Literature
The Autumn of the Body
The Moods
The Body of the Father Christian Rosencrux
The Return of Ulysses
Ireland and the Arts
The Galway Plains
Emotion of Multitude

Author: Dorothy Quick

Language: English

Published: 1936

An alluring but deadly horror out of past centuries menaced the life of the young American—a fascinating tale of a strange and eery love.

Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar

Author: William Richard Bradshaw

Language: English

Published: 1891

A novel of the Haggard type. Lexington White, American, sails rom New York in the Polar King, bound to discover the North Pole. He unwittingly descends through a passage in the ice, and finally arrives in the Kingdom of Atvatabar, on an unknown continent. Here he witnesses some phenomena of physical science, notably an aerial voyage, with other wonders of art and nature supposed to have occurred in the interior of the earth. There is an additional interest in viewing in a new and strange light the achievements of occultism and the results of orthodox science. Theories of philosophy, love, marriage, art, etc., are ventilated.

and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Language: English

Published: 1894

The Brown Hand—The Usher of Lea House School—B. 24—The Great Keinplatz Experiment—Cyprian Overbeck Wells—Playing with Fire—The Ring of Thoth—The Los Amigos Fiasco—How It Happened—Lot No. 249—"De Profundis"—The Lift

Author: Elizabeth Lynn Linton

Language: English

Published: 1861

Author: Charles Neville Buck

Language: English

Published: 1912

Author: Bento Serrano

Language: Portugues

Published: 1883

Author: Bento Serrano

Language: Portugues

Published: 1883

Author: Bento Serrano

Language: Portugues

Published: 1883

Language: English

Published: 1858

What the Witches of New York City personally told me, Doesticks, you will find written in this volume, without the slightest exaggeration or perversion. I set out now with no intention of misrepresenting anything that came under my observation in collecting the material for this book, but with an honest desire to tell the simple truth about the people I encountered, and the prophecies I paid for.

Language: English

Published: 1909

A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research

Author: Edward T. Bennett

Language: English

Published: 1909

Language: English

Published: 1942

Author: Guy Newell Boothby

Language: English

Published: 1899

The mysterious figure of Dr. Nikola has obtained so strong a hold upon novel readers that the reappearance of this dramatic character needs only to be announced to insure immediate attention. Mr. Boothby demonstrates again the value of suspended interest, and his story holds the reader until the last page is reached.

Language: English

Published: 1921

Carolyn Wells makes excellent use of spiritism and the ouija board in creating an atmosphere of tense mystery, yet she does not allow her story to leave, even for a moment, the realm of things explicable by the most mortal of us. "A mystery story with a trap in it for the unwary, with suspense and excitement in plenty, and a satisfying dénouement."