| Title | : | The Unknown Guest |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Alexander Teixeira de Mattos & Maurice Maeterlinck |
| Release | : | 2012-07-24 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Classics, Books, Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 497718 |
| pubOne.info present you this new edition. My Essay on Death[1] led me to make a conscientious enquiry into the present position of the great mystery, an enquiry which I have endeavoured to render as complete as possible. I had hoped that a single volume would be able to contain the result of these investigations, which, I may say at once, will teach nothing to those who have been over the same ground and which have nothing to recommend them except their sincerity, their impartiality and a certain scrupulous accuracy. But, as I proceeded, I saw the field widening under my feet, so much so that I have been obliged to divide my work into two almost equal parts. The first is now published and is a brief study of veridical apparitions and hallucinations and haunted houses, or, if you will, the phantasms of the living and the dead; of those manifestations which have been oddly and not very appropriately described as “psychometric”; of the knowledge of the future: presentiments, omens, premonitions, precognitions and the rest; and lastly of the Elberfeld horses |
