This collection contains a mixture of stories about ghosts and contacts from spirits, some by celebrated authors, together with essays on psychical research.
As Joseph French notes in the preface, even for the skeptic, tales of ghostly activity retain a distinct fascination. The widespread interest in psychic phenomena in the early twentieth century proved to be a significant stimulus to literary production.
Contents 1) "When the World was Young" by Jack London 2) "The Return" by Algernon Blackwood 3) "The Second Generation" by Algernon Blackwood 4) "The Clavecin-Bruges" by George Wharton Edwards 5) "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe 6) "The Sylph and the Father" by Elsa Barker 7) "A Ghost" by Lafcadio Hearn 8) "The Eyes of the Panther" by Ambrose Bierce 9) "Photographing Invisible Beings" by William T. Stead 10) "Ghosts in Solid Form" by Gambier Bolton 11) "The Phantom Armies seen in France" by Hereward Carrington 12) "The Portal of the Unknown" by Andrew Jackson Davis 13) "The Supernormal: Experiences" by St John D. Seymour 14) "Nature-spirits, or Elementals" by Nizida 15) "A Witch's Den" by Helena Blavatsky 16) "Some Remarkable Experiences of Famous Persons" by Walter F. Prince
