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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (Annotated)
By Andrew Lang
Length8h 24m
About this audiobook
This edition includes the following editor's introduction: From the origin of the tale as a literary genre to one of its great exponents, Andrew Lang.
First published in 1897, "The Book of Dreams and Ghosts" is a curious book written by the excellent poet, historian and anthropologist Andrew Lang.
"The Book of Dreams and Ghosts" presents a dense anthology of stories of paranormal entity: premonitions that materialize, ghost apparitions, haunted houses, etc., that the author extracts with extreme rigor from documents or newspapers of the time, from Scottish historiography or even from Icelandic sagas, when they are not the result of his own curious investigations.
"The Book of Dreams and Ghosts" is a very entertaining and magnificently written book that if it can interest esoteric lovers, it will undoubtedly fascinate fans of fantastic literature, since the book reveals the "sociological" background of so much great Anglo-Saxon literature, from Henry James to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, passing through Bram Stoker and Sheridan Le Fanu. Literature that has made use of this tenebrous subject and whose crowning work is, without doubt, that brilliant ghost story entitled "The Turn of the Screw," a work that only by reading this book by Lang can be understood in its full dimension.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.1 (22)
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GenreFantasy, Horror, Young Adult
Length8 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 12, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1From the origin of the tale as a literary genre to one of its great exponents, Andrew Lang.
2Preface To The New Impression
3Preface To The First Edition
4Chapter 1. Arbuthnot On Political Lying - Begin With “Great Swingeing Falsehoods”...
5Chapter 2. Veracious Dreams - Past, Present And Future Unknown Events “Revealed”...
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6Chapter 3. Transition From Dreams To Waking Hallucinations - Popular Scepticism About The Existence...
7Chapter 4. Veracious Waking Hallucinations Not Recognised By Science; Or Explained By Coincidence...
8Chapter 5. “Spirits Of The Living.” - Mistakes Of Identity - Followed By Arrival Of Real Person...
9Chapter 6. Transition To Appearances Of The Dead - Obvious Scientific Difficulties...
10Chapter 7. More Ghosts With A Purpose - The Slaying Of Sergeant Davies In 1749...
11Chapter 8. More Ghosts With A Purpose - Ticonderoga - The Beresford Ghost...
12Chapter 9. Haunted Houses - Antiquity Of Haunted Houses - Savage Cases - Ancient Egyptian Cases...
13Chapter 10. Modern Hauntings - The Shchapoff Story Of A Peculiar Type - “Demoniacal Possession.”...
14Chapter 11. A Question For Physicians - Professor William James’s Opinion - Hysterical Disease? - Little Hands...
15Chapter 12. The Story of Glam - The Foul Fords
16Chapter 13. The Marvels at Fródá
17Chapter 14. Spiritualistic Floating Hands - Hands In Haunted Houses - Jerome Cardan’s Tale...
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