Phantasms of the Dead; or, True Ghost Stories

Biographical Sketch Preface CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS A GHOST? The Terror of the Dark What Is a Ghost? Historic Investigations Death Coincidences Are They Due to Chance? The Explanation Experimental Apparitions Telepathic Hallucinations Ghosts Which Move Material Objects Photographs of Ghosts The "Double" and the Spiritual Body What Happens at the Moment of Death How the Soul May Leave the Body Theories of Haunted Houses The Clothes of Ghosts Telepathy from the Dead The Psychic Atmosphere Forms Created by Will Physical Manifestations Can Haunted Houses be "Cured"? CHAPTER II PHANTASMS OF THE DEAD--I A Russian Ghost Grasped by a Spirit Hand "I Am Shot!" "Heave the Lead!" The Rescue at Sea How Ghosts Influence Us How a Ghost Warned the King The Stains of Blood Face to Face "Julia, Darling!" The Cut Across the Cheek The Invisible Hand The Apparition of the Radiant Boy Fisher's Ghost Harriet Hosmer's Vision The Apparition of the Murdered Boy The Ghost in Yellow Calico CHAPTER III MORE PHANTASMS OF THE DEAD--II Compacts to Appear after Death Lord Brougham's Vision The Tyrone Ghost Dead or Alive! The Scratch on the Cheek A Ghost in Hampton Court Half-Past One O'clock My Won True Ghost Story CHAPTER IV HAUNTED HOUSES The Record of a Haunted House B--- House Willington Mill The Great Amherst Mystery Brook House CHAPTER V GHOST STORIES OF A MORE DRAMATIC NATURE Disease-Phantoms The Tale of a Mummy Face Slapped by a Ghost Alone with a Ghost in Church A Haunted House in France A Haunted House in Georgia Shaken by a Ghost The House and the Brain APPENDIX A Historical Ghosts APPENDIX B The Phantom Armies Seen in France APPENDIX C Bibliography