Clairvoyants & Seances - A Short Story Collection

by Anthony Hope, Ivan Turgenev, Frederick Cowles

Genres: Anthologies; Classics; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Human beings are by nature very social animals. Most of us love to connect, to talk and share experiences. It’s a big world with much to do. But curiosity and grief are two situations that make some people attempt to discover more.

We are all familiar with the Ouija Board and also the thrill, or perhaps worry, that nighttime can be full of spirits who offer harm and fear, rather than comfort and solace.

In this volume we run the gamut across clairvoyants as we explore seances and all manner of experiences that come from them or of our curiosity to find out more from the spirit world, ‘the other side’. Indeed, grief motivates some people to talk with their departed loved ones through their talents. Whether they be genuine or charlatans our authors stories reveal much about the human condition from the pens of Benson, Schwob, Purves, Hope, Cowles and Jerome as well as the talents of many others.

01 - Clairvoyants and Seances - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction

02 - A Strange Story by Ivan Turgenev

03 - The Man of Science by Jerome K Jerome USE

04 - Eyes For the Blind by Frederick Cowles

05 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith

06 - Mrs Morrel's Last Seance by Edgar Jepson

07 - Spiritualism by Marcel Schwob

08 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens

09 - The Spectral Hand by Jean Lorrain

10 - The House of the Black Evil by Eric Purves

11 - The Thing That Smelt by Christopher Blayre

12 - A Sucessful Rehearsal by Anthony Hope

13 - The Terror by Night by E F Benson