The Night Side of Nature
Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers
2 Volume Set
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
- Author: Catherine Crowe
- Date Published: May 2011
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- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108027519
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The novelist and children's author Catherine Crowe (c.1800–1876) published The Night Side of Nature in two volumes in 1848. This lively collection of ghostly sketches and anecdotes was a Victorian best-seller and Crowe's most popular work. Sixteen editions appeared in six years, and it was translated into several European languages. The stories are intertwined with Crowe's own interpretations and commentaries which attack the scepticism of enlightenment thought and orthodox religion. Crowe seeks instead to encourage and re-invigorate a sense of wonder and mystery in life by emphasising the supernatural. The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of the after-life. Volume 2 probes the mysterious phenomena of troubled spirits, haunted houses, spectral lights, apparitions and poltergeists. Crowe's vivid tales, written with great energy and imagination, are classic examples of nineteenth-century spiritualist writing.
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- Date Published: May 2011
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108027519
- length: 826 pages
- dimensions: 320 x 250 x 70 mm
- weight: 1.34kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
1. Introduction
2. The dweller in the temple
3. Waking and sleeping, and how the dweller in the temple sometimes looks abroad
4. Allegorical dreams, presentiments, &c.
5. Warnings
6. Double dreaming and trance, wraiths, &c.
7. Wraiths
8. Doppelgangers, or doubles
9. Apparitions
10. The future that awaits us. Volume 2:
1. The power of will
2. Troubled spirits
3. Haunted houses
4. Spectral lights, and apparitions attached to certain families
5. Apparitions seeking the prayers of the living
6. The poltergeist of the Germans, and possession
7. Miscellaneous phenomena
8. Conclusion.
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