Project Gutenberg 2011-07-12 Public domain in the USA. 210 French, Joseph Lewis 1858 1936 20011499 The Best Psychic Stories Reading ease score: 67.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. 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. 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.) "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.) en Short stories Paranormal fiction PN Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal Browsing: Fiction 547954 547929 2024-10-15T13:45:44.724015 2023-09-16T06:30:05.297556 text/html text/html 554689 2021-01-07T22:36:43 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 204570 2021-01-07T22:36:43 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 290937 2024-10-15T13:45:55.655999 application/epub+zip 295374 2024-10-15T13:45:48.420043 application/epub+zip 281856 2024-10-15T13:45:46.841065 application/epub+zip 508188 2024-10-15T13:46:00.851923 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 472270 2024-10-15T13:45:54.432013 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 433688 2022-09-16T17:09:16.501408 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 501163 500935 2024-10-15T13:45:43.412000 2023-09-16T06:30:04.361553 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 500998 2021-01-07T22:36:43 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 194078 2021-01-07T22:36:43 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 500990 2021-01-07T22:36:43 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 193992 2021-01-07T22:36:43 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22683 2024-10-15T13:46:00.991967 application/rdf+xml 12727 2024-10-15T13:45:47.418018 image/jpeg 3502 2024-10-15T13:45:47.126979 image/jpeg 271719 2024-10-15T13:45:44.772007 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia