The Best Psychic Stories

CLASSIIC REPRIINT SIERIIES
THE BEST PSYCHIC STORIES

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PREFACE

THE case for the I' psychic" elem n t in literature rests on a very old foundation; it reaches back to the ancient mast.ers,-the me who wrote' the Greek tragedies. Remorse will ever se m commonplace alongside the furies. Ever and alway the shadow of the supernatural invites, pursues us. s the art of literature has progressed it has grown along with it. To-day there is a whole new school of .iters of GhostStories, and the domain of the invisible s being invaded by explorers in many paths. We d~_!lot b~l!~~C?_!!!_u~h more, perhaps, that is, we do not so 0 enly express a belief~butarthasfiDallyan(Crrankly cl tmed ·1:he supernatmal for its own-.-·--One discerning: aut ority evengo"'es

so far as to assert that the borders of it domain will be greatly enlarged in the wonderful n w field of the screen.

There is no motive in a s~ory, no imag in poetry, that can give us quite the thrill of" a supern tural idea. If we were formally charged with this, e might resent the imputation, but the evidence has pe sisted from the beginning, lives on every hand, and ultiplies daily. What we have been in the habit of c lling the "machinery" of the old Greek drama-its upernatural effects-has come finally to be an art culti ated with care at the present hour, and has given us orne wonderful new writers. In fact, few of the bes masters for a generation now have been able to resi t its persistent


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s Up a virgin field which has be tilled. Within the coming for great artists to devote their Algernon Blackwood is doing ying reason is enough to account imposes simply no lim'it on the to all that science has taught us, there is illimitable e of myth and legend to aid, to draw from, to work in, to work over, as Lord Dunsany has shown us. It the most significant movement in literature at the pr ent hour, and whether it is sup-

ported by a special b round of interest-as at pres-

ent in spiritism-or n the assertion is logical that it

is creating a new body of fictional literature of perma-

nent importance for first time in the history of lit-

erature. The human dy seems to have been ex-

ploited to its final li ts j as the art of the novel, the

art of the stage, but sadly prove to-day. We have

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turned outward for thrills to the supernatural and

we are getting them.

It only remains to e added that the present great interest in spiritualism and allied phenomena has made necessary the addition f certain material of a "literal" character which we bel ve will be found quite as interesting by the general ader as the purely literary portion of the book.

and abiding charm. cry writer of true imagination,

almost without except including even certain real-

ists, has given us at ast one story, long or short, in which the central mo ive is purely psychical in the Greek sense of the w

The whole subject 0 after all only begun generation we may 10 whole powers to it, to-day. A simple un for it all-the new

OSEPH LEWIS FRENCH



CONTENTS

PAlle
PREFACE · Joseph Lewis French v
INTRODUCTION Dorothy Scar oTough ix
WHE:{ THE WORLD WAS YOUNG Jack London 1
THE RETURN · Algernon B kwood 24
THE SECOND GENERATION . · Algernon m kwood 31
JOSEPH-A STORY . Katherine Ri kJord . 41
THE CLAVECIN-nRUGES . · George lVhart nEdwards 54
UGEIA Edga-r Allan oe 61
TITE SYLPR AND TEE FATHER Elsa Barker. 83
A GHOST. · Lafcadio Ilea 88
TnE EYES OF THE PANTHER 95
PHOTOGRAPHING INVIS1BLE BE-
INGS. 109
THE SIN-EATER • · Fiona IvI acleo 126
GllOSTS IN SOLID FORM: Gambier BoU 162 THE. PHA..."\TOM ARMIES SEE;N IN FRANCE.

THE PORTAL OF THE UNKNOWN. THE SUPERNORMAL: ExpIljR1- Er..~CES .

NATURE-SPIRI'1'S, on ELEMEN-

'ngton • 188 A sulreu: Jacks n Darns. 195

• Nizida

· 202

TALS

A 'VITCB'S DEN.

· 218 • 258

SOME. REl\fARKABLE EXPERI-

ENCES OF FAMOUS PERSONS Dr. Walter F. rince 280





INTRODUCTION

THE PSYClUC IN LITERATURE

WAR, that relentless disturber of bound ries and of traditions in a spiritual as well as a material sense, has brought a tremendous revi al of interest in the life after death and the possibilit of communication between the living and the dead. France became nearer to millions over here because our soldiers lived there for a few months, as French soil will forever be holy ground because our dead rest there, so the far country of the soul likewise seems n arer because of those young adventurers. The confi ct which changed the map of Europe has in the minds of many effaced the boundaries between this world and e world beyond. Winifred Kirkland, in her book, he, New Death; discusses the new concept of death, and the change in our standards that it is making. used to speaking of this or that friend's phil ophy of life; the tim_~.has-EE.~~o~e_ when.every one, 0 us who is to live at peace with his own brain must po sess also a pliiI6sophyof-death." This New Death, sh says, is so far mainly:in- immense yearning receptivit , an unprecedented humility of brain and of heart t ward all implications of survival. She believes that it is an influence which is entering the lives of the pe ple as a whole, not a movement of the intellectuals, n r the re-

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snlt of .psyehical-rcsearch propaganda, but ari ing from t!id simple, elen~.ental emotions of the soul, fro human love and longing for reassurance of continued life.

"If a man die, shall he live again 7 " has een propounded ever since Job's agonized inquiry.. ow numbers are asking in addition, "Can we have co munication with the dead 1" Science, long derisive, s sympathetic to the questioning, and while many be ieve and many doubt, the subject is one that inter sts more people than ever before. Professor James Hy on, Secretary of the American Society for Psychical esearch, believes that the war has had great influence in arousing new interest in psychical subjects and tha tremendous spiritual discoveries may come from it.

Literature, always a little ahead of life, 0 at least in.-a£:vanceof general thinking, has in the mo e recent years been acutely conscious of this new nfluence. Poetry, the drama, the novel, the short story, h ve given affirmative answer to the question of the soul' survival after death. No other element has so large) entered into the tissue of recent literature as has the ural, which now we meet in all forms in the all lands. And no aspect of the ghostly ar is more impressive or more widely used than the int oduction of the spirit of the dead seeking to manifest itself to the living. No thoughtful person can fail to be interested in a theme which has so affected literature as has the ghostly, even though he may disbelieve vhat the Pszchicak.Researeaers bold to be established.

l\Ian's love for the supernatural, which is 0 e of the most natural things about him, was never mor marked than now. Mans imagination, ever vaster than his



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environment, overI aps the barriers of time and space and claims all worl s as eminent domain, so that literature, which he has he power to create, as he cannot create his material s roundings, possesses a dramatic intensity and an 'epic sweep unknown in actuality. -LitID:::. ature shews.what, umanity- really-is .and.Jongs to .be .

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Man, feeling belitt ed by his petty round of uninspir-

ing days, longs for a larger life. He yearns for traffic with immortal bein s that can augment his wisdom, that can bring comfort 0 his soul dismayed and bewildered by life. IIe reach out for a power beyond his pun)' strength. Aware ho relentlessly time ticks away his little hour, he erav s companionship with the eternal spirits. Ignorant f what lies before him in the life to which he speed so .fast, he would take counsel of tbose who know, , ould ask about the customs of- the country where pres ntly be will be a citizen. He. feels so terribly alone t at he cries out like a child in the dark for superrnort I companionship.

Literature, whic is both a cause and an effect of

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man's interest/ill t e supernatural as in anything else,

reflects his longing and records his cries. And when we read the imagin ngs of the different generations, we find that the spiri of the dead is represented almost everywhere. Befor poetry and fiction were recorded, there were singers d story-tellers by the fire to give to their listeners t e thrill that comes from art. And what thrill is camp rable to that which comes from contact with the snpe mortal? The earliest literature relates the appearan e of the spirits of those who have died as coming hac to comfort or to take vengeance on the living, but alw ys aSj sentient, intelligent, and with



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an interest in the earth they have 1 ft. All through the centuries the wraith has survived in literature, 'has flitted pallidly across the pages of poe , story and play, with a sad wistfulness, a forlorn di nity.

A double relation exists between the iterature and the records of the Psychical Research So iety. Lacy 001- lison-Morley, in his Greek and R ;n Ghost Stories, speaks of the similarity between aneie t tales of spirits and records of recent instances. here are in the Fourth Book of Gregary the Or t's Dialogues a Dumber of stories of the passing of so s which are euriously like some of those collected by he Psychical Research Society," he says. Possibly h an personality is much the same In all lands and all imes,

Conversely, some of the best examp es of ghostly literature have had their inspiration in he records of the society, Henry James's Tlie Turn of the Screw being a notable example. Algernon Blaekw ad, that extraordinary adapter of psychic material to ction, makes Irequent mention of the Psychical Rese reh Society, and uses many aspects' of the psychical i his fiction. Innumerable stories, novels, plays and poems have been written to show the nearness of the d ad to the living, and the thinness of the veil that s parates the two worlds. There is deep pathos in the co cept of the longing felt by the dead and living alike t speak with each other, to rend the dividing veil, which adds a poignancy to literature, even for readers incred lous of the possibility of such communication. The e are many who are un convinced of the reality of the messages in Raymond, for instance.e-yet who could '1 to be touched by the delicate art with which Barrie uggests the dead



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son '8 return in his play, WeU ... Rememb ered. Vaice? While one may be rep lled by what he feels is fraud and trickery in some of the psychic re-cords, it is impossible not to be moved y such an impressive piece of symbolism as Granvi Ie Barker's Souls on

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Fifth, where the lonely, futile pirits of the dead are

represented as hovering near th place" they knew the best, seeking piteously to win so e recognition from the living. The repulsive aspects 0 spirit manifestations have been treated many times nd with power, as in Joseph Hergesheimer's The M eker Ritual, to give one very recent example. The su ject has interested the minds of many writers who have dealt with it satirically or sympathetically, or with a cur ous mixture of scoffing and respect, as did Browning i Sludge, the MedvU-'rn. Even such pronounced realists as William Dean Howells and Hamlin Garland have wri tt n novels dealing with attempts at spirit communieatio .

Any subject that has won so incontestable a place in our literature as this has, po sesses a right to our thought, whatever be our attitu e of acceptance or rejection of its claims to actuality No person wishes to be ignorant of what the world is hinking with reference to a matter so important as the irit, Hence this volume, The Best Psychic Stories, in presenting these studies in the occult, will have i terest for a. wide range of readers, and Mr. French, the ditor, has shown cr-itical discrimination and extensive knowledge of the subject. Many who are already int rested in psychicl phenomena will be glad to be info med concerning recent and startling manifestations re ounted by special investigators. The sincerity of a an like W. T. Stead,


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iIlg usa ts, the man lea Angered afreeh by eve rusIJ J au the m.a n, leap dogs, we t backwards. or i c Whercup the doOgs~ ta i would a tbelZl..

The-eD a bound its ribs ved in and it leet. Tb the h umau lage Bee ed the Ii ps ilia late cry, as it sprang i both han and brough

the npre ring grizzly r could wi stand til e C1"I)1; ~ the ani 1 went down hounds. And through t e r squarely upon the body ligh~ res ing on his eln I h 1IlI.k.uowtl t(lngue--a lOll W utz 'W uld have given t

Hia g ts ru.&hed to but Jam s W&rd~ sudd the early Teat.oll, sa fV' tb

inartle • ightily ~

t P- head f

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in. He J and im; In-

e.das

ountry i der the t of the

e curse k. and ni 11 terror, __ ........

e.r, and lit'

lees, His

ounger I'1I, that eiviljzed t in the is city

an 8rarm~ dool"-[oek" u. and ap

e is a. est can lso, he

is C! tent to l' r qu tioued b be M II Valley"'C

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iott!t--tbat sense of dill ube iness him so sudd-cwy, se stealthily at fi oticed i 1:, bot wi til neb mark d inc a t he pre sell. tly Got up end 1 e the

was on the gangway of the d c

out" awkwardly in the midd e of

the best and jolliest song of the C-e.

"WJ M.akiDg with 1a ughter j S in fee . thn.t etten strangrrs turned te e S&.yt uNoW", un Jt tbat funny' J

. U&~ too, the "'3Y tb e f-ee1illg fi t ~ot

a in the full swwg of IQ, usb ter,

: or it came as 8 vague l!'t.1gg • on. I

Uti rlg---60mcthing I mean t to d,..._____,_"

o tance. "\Vb at in the world wa it, 11 t hB~ aearehiag "'V8 illly t I'ong di!lD'lwed it as the d ane ~ g c It came ba e.k 0 little later ag j n, ding g-lrinded tal k t ha t bored him nd t his once mere, hut came more s ongly on an an!:!:wu. W hat enul d it have er looked, left undone, or.litted to !;e b bl inK at the anbcontciou~ pa t of Oar... b, AlprDOD Blac ..---......_ CompaDJ'.

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ed, this isrnissal and red i be f Dlort plain] , distinct here.

e where, UUe' fel~ ike IL that. the

e, J, he laugh t but liberately fig t· 3'~ t 50 insidiousl depths of hi 1 t Dever oc u red ill. His hea ust as a coalthe top ft.oor~ at of uaf6.e m

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round it. open w lQ came
the fresh d nave 11 ticed be.
fore bonr s ~ r could and that
e
not all the in lCueh
of wild fr me-yes,
almoat m lowed a
drnugbt o it as 8S tho
tangled w d of sa", the
proeesalon f the flaw tbe
moonlight lling pon the
&l a tea. and in him
quickened Core.
He turD ness hnd
of a sudde • There faDey VUIlI nn the
eleetri e I ig to him
that some whlle he
.st<lod ther s.ilent

presence this new
thing that sense of
original d imself~
iO.llgry-m 1)" upset
over Dothi dly dis-
il:'r.s&ed &t g iD his
well-ordc • ssed tho
word the • bad 00-
curredto
empty 811 room at
the end, t ts and
go! f sticks, dlsquiet- o lBI B FDlJ'Dllm Boou -. fot-aottmhoooh.Df1

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u h t he peeping l'O

t of au en


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28

.IIgtU tan brus hil h he h lips.

round, He walt ievement as he n vague ly- Strangh

h !I you th, al ways tal ine1l eet ual thiD_gti. Q n-eled a bou t. if ey w y tbey had gone 8p ri he had forgotten

p eped at him I'Ol,l.Ild be


RETURN

29.

e found no war t d sensatlons, H

this idea. to him fieently him. whisper

underitand~ I' ran h s mind. He aaw

went h is plaee 'ght. II held hi ~


-. fot-aottmhoooh.Df1

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30

longer

other.

He h ut terly f rgo n it hu.d not forgot.ten i from dia, That very vern

'eloek, d be ad

"ed.


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arp nperienee, t make~ a pm1i· j ta full eonten t 8" time, yes, " he the great K en~

for her to have + ed. More than . sh places where ondered whether ner of though ta Gerg.8S bis mind.

tpOC6 i and wi th P. O..,ttoD • 00.

e zm n DIJ'DIIm OOU

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32 TH t

the e~ci tem 'Was also

t ha hOl"l'id rinkiug SClI atio

gao WiD the worl had I'D phed e very day had be ot sent • ay a Ii t e ~ ry slowl he walked nable e nee of asea

slm t take· Bu t all

aces we possibly avagant tai of being rea ed the and shrank thei spotless cha ge his hoo it ring hav paral yz I':5we, he mig sli p n way. su • tboug hea t was no AD he ree she married

o h at d t ollSh h seen dly t the ell

era ti ~ theuJ b

a, he tone ed t belL n t merciful]y; tha t him 8.1t tbet. still leave a CD. ~ how utt rly ~ A man f th·

t to prctee a with a li le B

d been no 10

iD. the I despise

with .s: d, tDueh of paiD his eoura


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that hU~t c hostile air. 1 d bis nmbeel hnt he nd him while i looked

push him a _ The

go through welcomed he I house! H

antici pation~ cd and the

rten in ust like t terri·

at door

ng, nspire hea t, An mo e had im

OW, he woul d h ve run, id-his we f exile in wi position be a

ry of her £l'R . pport, his on - • Thel'e ow i e and the WOl' in friendly

im going-fa an nnee in d, greatly

USpR. oonso]aso little she had

versa· if! knew liab Oil'" , that

int of

Il~ carelessl,. h, I'm back i rgot ten ruy e of saying j; H

well .. ~ ./ If easily oot ould at least

tenee-> -do-youand the into tb~

e In n FDlJ'Dllm Boou I I I

-. fot-aottmhoooh.Df1

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her i he would bave he rd h r gen tie, amber eyes i h ~ d Sh6 migh t ev a.sk b i to her! He had rehears it tain feeble te be came ra.th 'Wi th au ac:hi

filled. All til

abou t i t~ tho draw near, be wrote, the it.), he had tel be in- He si

Tbere W8S si \+e~ hostile a fist of bron doi ng so. Bu the d den 1y oot:I..8ClOU of the his clothes we e bardl hId • twan g i it! and betray the toll h life think of him, O\V r how brusque i waa to ha'l' te felt awku'ard gauch to gu . ed,

turus.. The nteaees, d lly

yond reco'/ery

Good he8.\I' s--t her

for some mi tes.. It mo 11 isel

He acted auto aden j he he. d bi

t .agg ntly Ii e self f r

lad..vghi p was aud ible. Th n grea t, dim h 1 bered perf the door cl ler betrnycd wrought ima i a I t seemed to significance 0 expee~ ano respectfully ma.rveUOU8ly t ai straight qu Old CQuntry eareful ritu

And almos pressionl~J room on the en the tabl "fri II have tea wards J I wu

,

. ('arne thickly out, Before h I~ Is ~e ilU ' thank YOIl, $i ~. ship will se was re pea ted chai rand Jtl he f~lt he di

35

1I took hi uDkeya Jon aecusto

is quite sir, her horrid fo

to him.


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36 TilE BE T PSYCmC

am.a2! ment a !ric bea. w hen he left selve had a more confid and resent I ezpl

chan e in 8.0 H gulped abd tood sti .

81'S in ed In firat eleethan

Cr of , drinkrbaps.

na. p:lper.

down. Hi~ hear 80n 0 f n umbne


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mere tell Y es bu

yond his eh,

& tlaelrwood an.

For one t ing Q thought abo t it Ita.ve eh&llg ~ T j 1I US tra ted a. little 1& ho

8be carne, her parted ips h eyes were 90 t lId him; for th ~nst snnligh t-th t she ways kn ow j ha easily to hi in a need it. It was and tru Co. e j outstretched hand the nearest sofa. .eft Inevi

outstr smile flCe.

~d edcl

at him .. tbi~ m etiDg


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carne abod t. And be place, bee", he teat' den glory b ugh t:. and OV~

I~ So you ve here sti t ,"

I~He", a d bere U s

* •

heart, and t en her c

teo, bees usc you. used eo a

caose it "'II here I w i ted 80

"Wait. I Ii l never ] e e it lee, we live ogetber b e. J •

He said II tL ingr He lean d £ war her. Til e a fupt know ed ge of' all seem abropt it -was a@ he h had an d the co plete di OiDf' d ei t her n.th as thong she tol mel:. plicab ly ] eft unrea zed, et abeol utely aster of 11 nl sc ~ outside of ilIuelf at already op to prevent. doer,

BEST

• 'But you are Creel" in!!, ou.t aDd ooding hi !;Calld I_)t

She in te pted him in t

he hid ever h~~:

~ I You are ot free. aa 1 am The soun oubi de step, The WWi a flm elle In a Hasht then, cam whelmed hi -the ab was someho horribl

seem disc ething be otten. He

in a curious I; me. H is a rIllS hel her hands nd outside

tion f the truth , alt these ~ars~


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paper jmllt rigbt a sof stagg peu.ed of ex

THE TION 39
left
w her last,
ess izato the
alien. una
d upon the ex aCT]y wba of!r out the ha t battered omeho" in d

he It

zm n FDlJ'Dllm Boou I

-.

this eleg JJ) bad been .ttri else, :150m one Ie· th pen ' '-perIJ a ps

r rehiteet, IUs n me w ." such an ordi

ere so ro B y Sm ~ t was also cleat"

had eo to se and a: seen, no ton

here i the flesh . . .

A d just 8' he left t e hall be bad the visi

fleeti glim pse i 'W fall, sliml girlish

ths t nuking if an hing wroDgj and

through b..is 11 io pain that she

eeu , the wile 0 the s 'W bo had iOOeri ted •


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Dot an 0 a Iittle f ~t to hold.

burning s e to bed; it lingered ies, Nothi ha felt any e etrate the d iasion <!'8 u~d

• h one there


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ff.et' di nDe.rfuea ilia t has at each side

oak. At the ted baek fer

p1ayed~ Tbe. raisins from d long since ] ~d them, but

t fill at telling een told j no ODe der or try to of the rOom j the anting. From a d so 0. sudden

sn

was a glrl who oke it. lr up t night Or the "'ge h r the righ to sit

ue," he said.

dle-a cd man in a deep n t of he .fire,

bald d and LL

dden tu

thou h t u poD eeple rei n a l'(l m that be looked round nervous ing to

+re to ,

ink ot hi

to he

understa somethi orce a t era ved pres.

dtam,

It he )

strange ne.. OD ted bim ready

ted to 810 hi m.. adeilS

and that at them, sell with

~{His Joseph.

~on, on a and J osep was a seU -eon ined Peepte s d tb talk. So tbat she

was in so that he t The li


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is DOWt I

mas E son of of so aQd pI

ul

l@i;£ffif:

zt.u. rcnse in the dis or the a:ua,ge ss, The reason in dow n p.ass throw e of th eft'eet

cited, knew f~tly. fright.

strlUl.g e. I r I ~ .. as


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any rate, Any ghost is better past tbe s to these d

He indi w8ve of b did any 0 pleteJy ab llI.@rized b girl Wa!\ with the would ba a,lieD 8llJ,O

doon by 8 curious toward tbeJll nor flre combe mes-

mauner, Only the eMion of i pati enee a c to bis inL Oue a rt from her

the .-tall" iu tbf!l ha bllder the UJIlOfjm. thing Ijke to mQvej was wan By the fi tionaUy, b so I went when. sud did not he I just kac upstairs. \'rUb the

t I made e of iind-

IS net, it wd wide

46 THE BEST rsxc

cpen, and, s{8,nding between other was opeD I too, I was sta e f the house, llnd as I peered i to make out some famiUar obj e t, th u DIY mind .of people who had e and left there to die. For Il of the in side of a thick wall. sensa tion I have often read ab u

b eron = I knew there was 90 are surprised, yes, but wait r tha t some one was conscious of

to me thllt whoe'ler it was m.i h

door. I Dl8de roOlll fo r him made su re of him, began to f voice, deep and cleat:

t j; 'There is some one there ~ 'I anawe.red lDecbanlcally J U 4 I'm Joseph.' '~A ma teh was drawn aer

the boy b ending over a esnd eatcb. Fer B moment I thou his 51eep~ b Ilt he turned to m in his own boyish voice:

" f Lost aDythiDg' ~ '~I was amazed lit the lad's tG abaTe my fl!'igh t with 80Dle it from this boy _ I was cease 0

:shamer I had l'f8 tehed him ,a

him, scoJded him, and yet he e he W Bel: planation of Jny presence · odd hew of the Dight.

14 Soon he repeated the: q

_. foraDltom1.noh.DI1

I I 1·-·,-----

~ ~No '

.L.LLL.I..-.,..... ed, j Have yon. t· lan.gh. fIt's th t :room,

47

ae, t e matt-er with tb room t'

a'S kille in. r be said qui simply. rd ah t his dreams, btl bad .a per enee ~ r hem; when, the Core, he ad. b n killed. in his room I to it tor

e ha.d been amillg ~rraiu. I

ui te h w to fa le him; whether to treat

ued d laugh it off as ucb. or

ear bis story. I got him in • big UJDcb ir, end

you ran .. way

wn up that it qui te

m as e child he really u. 1m uncann ~ thiJJ man in ohild 's

re, J he aid again.

an, I ~ I asked him.

urdered, Of CODl"Se it yean

't uy en , still I rem. er the

tbe m thai. remin d me of

I' I ex I aimed. cl 1 B 'Ilg kill is 'Only an i acide t in the ny ODe One m kes a IllS! about

bu t WIlly you come to

e In n FDlJ'Dllm Boou I

48 BIES
He
•
wmy
obody k
• s. Of \las m
BOn IS
I 'W8& ki y tbing
have bee e it 'W'
pose~ bee
'4He I I knew he w b
me u r some ti wheel-ba It is at Dight I pattern across eaaditio pattern "WPDot pen.cdt the pa ceiling. sort of in the m those pi the who

youw

r was. igbt I " roe, 50 di

beredth


49 at d rer::t1y

eil· -niB'ht

JOSEPH:

n chair. Nowt surely, y

sa the sh dow 0 r that e rea i:t:ed tb

ent that e person m.i enme 11

air and pe would be i poS&ible~

b a9 q itkly us I eou I and ran ut w ~ you not &fra~ / I we hat sh migh t follow e tIt

IlctW NOt d on 't t hl Ilk I She

own talrs. DJ' how she di

u l ~'I s id. • N o

~ C must have

't UI.!&n to My on f.UI"

herr'

e pa me as~I at tl I bave done

, YOll long

Or he

e zm n FDlJ'Dllm Boo -.~ob.DI1

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8 t all one 'IS bed as fa.r e shadow 0 eatb , I gre

IES

ptYt on the floo J on the bro.

kn

meet it w8 ligh derin

rouse fUm head t d was lost ange of kn

that it was e ether pa exactly wbe er my ehest ulder, I fa

counte pane. y 01" to com",ai ted in aD be hap ng, the:.:no ment nd b ushed ·Ilg i ~ could e time to do ill my iIorts

JOS~ t off from my any patt or my wiU to ma

51

diffe e ee that can w I waited I

come. time

'4 IT e 1 eBSf ; it waa like a een 1 t in prayer rigin er cle r ~ but I thin\:

be I could not

tten Ii was cotloontra

felt fulgen itchi

1St they move a 10 ng-d raw n

e that has bnl back to join 0'1 was silent nd for the ei rem em b ee not be said. "I'h a tely b reUiog ng and mother as a. moment t

ni.ng ssed and ever

nee. T eRector W.Q1iJ

" Tc f: Grady j t b

. ,

06e e 1 ed between th

be DU ry window t' , But a )'DllDg married

~ OUt theD seem~d the stc

zm n FDlJ'Dllm Boou I

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s

etwee the b y to h r the lrl a

ienled the

amiD She as

thi ing" en, bollo -800ll ing

hono ~ that ear uld

D abi al at. d blin ly. the t

e In n DfZ(I!Im Boou

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A STORY

J SEP

uld be so st

ow yo e done ~ pur pos J J he aaid, Itt

"For a purpc 'J I ve dW8Y ve to thauk y , of aking so . u

id '~abe

~

that girl was he eul p,i I opportuui ty have :8 "Veo

e zm n FDlJ'Dllm Boou III

T

gras&+gtoWD nes of which lattel loud)y~ d trou:sel" loUin

rket-plaee, u the

e sabctts or a ing

group of alee r ckwon t the wid l"tal rly ,ky

ases there lill

made in the t e forb idden, A d I ptea. OD. the sta.irs is ile aver her sbo or of IiItcwing i_oil. I Thll ~atwy eg, Sf.

il!h tears aloft All the height t has Of aueien t ito

old Flemish der peeps a ta e ag~ tables fills t e ill r,

e zm n FDlJ'Dllm Boou II

T

· t 8 vaulted ceil .Again&t

e statues. nose] nd dis-.

effigies. of fo 0 lord:s

np on the 'RIal ., i t ted

ch the violet 1 g of dlY

eoo of pi !!I. To the

ing stCpr8 of e, &l1d &

have taken a du stepa kness t the 8t

e is I5li pperv-o-RI'"f'

t ecome by han . Four

:ve lost traclt rd round a llScious of 1 to what' I d n t know. thelll, and the &i is cold

. At last .. dim 'S' t above.

n g]are of light, omeJ1t Js:

a grad nally I Dpon

ionewor k is a v t reach the horizon, n lines of wi ed roofs. A

ues that line J evanescell

lI'\Vbat do fiOM, and sigh :shjning new .fi cf keys. As e hDarse, gleefo I .tq

... A huge, di the wall lean .figured, ~ Ilnd ladies of F an Gothic windo,," t is atreami ng. h rigb t 8. low do hanging hand· p II pwatd I am 08t· ho11f)W 8Ild &10 in 'been 'Wued, so ,hundred steps Il ·bcr~ aDd sturn. :slender stene frow time to t A damp smell ex

,

UPOD my face I

Wi th the Dext 11r blankDeSSt then a me. Through of Grayish gre shield em bosse stu dded 'With I! US yellow a p pea t Bad dimly be nd the NOl"th Sea.

Somet hing fI


EST PSYCmc STO

56

as a jjh I Ie landsea

o W bg its fI igbt npward. I It h~ryt wherton IIJ'"e p~hc ~~ down upon me in won r4 _-....r_UI of a rhythmic movem n

ai , a Dl.Ysteriotl~ beatingt th b

f the el ook, whicll lOme on ron bea.ting in a. breast of

the uat'l"OW $li 1, gazing quid te harmony of the

lazily turni oS' arms of { t Van del" Veldet Ten er

ee tic n:!l. I ant consciou on places of deliah LA'

bind me, a smothered e k velvet coat .. tands lee

t witting his han cis. The a e

tisb, aDd all! am used ~n s a 01'

i Ii clean ly 8baveD~ of the (!' 01' of wax t ork of red Unes over the b -bo es, 11 d been foreed there by h tetnailled. He has b

with a n if the" paaiion a mental ·

ey~, th 0

his 10 sound ;

still the

spine Q me.

"re~ J, nys t little man) sudd

s ands, alld iiI ilJ his 61 POD m. I j

l' ueh pens ln y count . Bu stly . me, and I · l .how 1) the cla

e the elaveein et.! N ' , f. eou r8C1 and t uked h Melchior. M

~ entered a y ~ a medley· two la l1C't cy] +

IDl()ng the wi wi tb

one, pulled hung

here came a r~ - -r- r~r 0 shower of dust; s[Qwly lve;. wire. ropes egan to twitch n vulsi f.ar-otf bells. that well CAme and we his hands i

anmine the III and .bli05t d I will skow t he prod. uce Voted "With of stepa to wh

isclosi Ii: an ed me. It

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ran a

From t eir sh pe I had b the f beUe.

or of e elia· knew them

~Iyou n belief, himself

board, Frontill beD.ch. sh~tl be of

key· rs8..D· eked

exami by ban

f SQ'lB . Across

hand. ihle 01

prise) ame 0 eynof Eet -ee

wed all t pIa· ly he j lid he IDU teeed, W Yf)U th n you g mgi tJr eated up

try


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unde I be old alou. I the ells. rods and died c

thu.nd~r~ of the u of the H tie

fening seemed 0.0. It Id man d. He

~ aDd I

pedals, armed. lock


the bot it once, t the wind

selL"

o [n!) FDlJ'Dllm Boou _. oh.DI1

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j Aud tb., 1\10 tba rteriOl of the will, n prnadiog ~.n thi. to ,:rield hlm.tell to t ugh the ~abesa

ember bo

riDg~ ~

mind, bef my belove ~ her eauty.

ueuce of low

~Dto my h t by

uivc, th. t they h ve et I believe that I et tome lafge~ old I

r fatnily lave s remotely a i eia! Burie adapted to t is by ibat before mi e eyes in mOte. And DOw I W iIc

e 1 I n FDlJ'Dllm Boou II I

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62

lnt!'K: my studi ) playr test 0-

as my friend partner of

teD. ADd,

topic, It is Ihe hat slen


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perfection. Tbere wer ess of su rfac th e same

cy to the aq uil De, the sam

tril speaking the e spiri L

o th. Here "as' eed the

D - the maglllfl eut ttl rn. 0 hort 13 p-

e 6 ft, voluptuous slumber of del", the

sported, and e color w okeJ the

baekJ -.ith a rilUaney a BrUiugt

e holy light w ioh f.el lui n her eid, yet most exultingly di t of all tinized the f atien of t e hi~ aDd ~ I fund the gf1l 11 of&S of bre th, the soft-


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P vomo STO IES

J th fuIness and th spirituality tour 'W hieh the god A olln revealed om DeS) tbe son 0 f he A thenia.n.

to large eye&: of igeia,

no m deb i D tbe rem eJy antique.. too, that in these ey of my beto hieh Lord Ve am alludes. lieve far larger than the ordi I18.ry ey \Tete even f ler than the of the tribe of be valley of y at interval in moments this: peeuliari ty became more Ligeia. AD d at 81lcb. mo·

y- ~ lily be&. ted.fan thus it apbea ty of beiDgG ei er abcve or the ~auty of tbe fa ulcus Houri ue 0 tbe orbs was t e most bril .. at' el' them hung j tty Iashes of row~ Bligh fly j rregul r in outlin-e*

4 strangeness. tt ~, whicll

wa&. f a nature disti ~t from the"

t f:l or the brillia.nay of the featul'es.

e re erred to the ex r en. Aht

ni J behi d whose vlst lilt tude of mere Dch ur i OI'8D.ce of so uch of the io of the eyes -of igeia ! Ho.

I po dered upon it l llow have I~ f a midsnmme.r Dig tJ strug!led wu it~tha t 80methi more proDemoeritu.9-w icb la.y fa~ beloved' Wha was it' ] . on to disco-,er. Those eyes.

W8I


65

Sell ti men t, r

tee gnizcd it.

e f rapidly·gr

DlO h, a b utter.fl , ter I have fel i me eor. I have ( t io

p e. ADd th re fl e one

~~'BUy, a sta f

geable, to b f a leseopic SCl' • of tbe fedinG'~ 1

e zm DIJ'DIIm Boou

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zm n FDlJ'Dllm Boou

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regard

knoW'n h t adm.i I bec.a.use ed e.rudi "oft of the

t fault'

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,I have neve me of the of the

pandin all un the goal dden l

DIy, upon as r haft the man ide areas seie1lC' I saw dearly pereei re, that t e acquisigigan tie, we astound g; yet I of he r infi I1i te to I'CS ign ~1ike eonnden , to he guidance orld of metap ysiw in estlga tion usily oeeupie daring he earlier 4 With bO\, ast a tri ph~ with i th haw Il\uch f all that is ethereal sb e bent over of: in stu ies but lit[)Wn -tha t de' r ous via by !dow fore me, do who!;8 Ollg~ gar· den path I igb.t at ngth Fass .a wisdom too "vine ly p !!ioU5 not

I must h.a. w ief with

~ I beheld tc themsel yes .a cbild gto alone, rend f! f the trance dental! antiDg the r diant ]


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eyes. Ie I"S, limb urn 1m I ad. A '0 freque y upon grew ll .

effulgt!

leu

emost Istrugg

And tbe onishme t been JIl diel lb.

vey a which Erllbh Q

I 'Weul

:liereo s demean -yetI of tbe bear

ason e lut htl!!l" f h-et

10"

I shoul "lya'Wa eo reigtui!d fully im

not hay tbat~ iD 11 b080 ordina::' pass 4

eased 'Wit the st

and ch as But. gth


of her affection. For 1 would she pour out before

whose more than pMmoll:a

auy. Bow bad I deserve

fessions 1 How had I dese to

temO\+a I of my beloved j n t e h ur

But upon this subject I e b

say on]y j that in Ligeia. 's 11le1l t to a love, alas! all li:lowf:d~ T at length reeogni

lng. "" th 10 wiJdly earn WBE DOW ileeing .eo rapid]

ing-it is this ealer veh fQr lile-that I ha ve DO capable or ex pr<JRSing.

A t high noon of the nigh .

on iag me peremptorily to eertain verses composed by T nheyed her. ThQ" were

Lo r tus & gala :oig t Within The Ion AD llD.~I thrung, In veilsj and d Sit in a. theater, A play of bop 8 While the erehest 8. b -rile music or

lIimesJ ill tbe fo M ut tel' and m And bither and Mere poppets.

o lBI B FDlJ'Dllm Boou _. foraDltm1.noh.DI1

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T

iddiDg of t fonn les t shift the cenery t Fla ping from 0 t their

I visJ,,.1e Woo

~h t motley dra a ~--oh I b I shall not be forgot!

Wi its Phanto chued f r ve 1 a. crowd th t seize it ~ Th ugh a circle that ever the self-sa e spot j:

m uch of )13 ness, and nd H orrer t e soul of h

n

Bu lee, amid th mimic 1:' U e.rauling sb pe j ntrud ! lood-red thin that wri

ut

II t are the ligh ts-o ! d over each qui veri ng f nn,

curtain, a. el'Bl pall

es down th the rn the angels, 11 pallid n prisin 8' ~ nn ve 1 i ng, am Tb t the pl &y is he trage

nd i is hero, Conqu

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domailll tbe man ies connected wit elings of utter ab tba t remote and u , a thO'ilSh the ntull 1


only

72 bey -th i li tt le 1 te e and et

tit su1f'ered but .) ike peM'erBi ty, . a tiJ:lg my lOr-

i6ceDce within. had imbibed •

a if in the dotage D f i nei pien t mad~Oll$ and fan .. of Egypt, in t.he He lam patterns of

be e a. be undfoD

labors and my ms, Bu t theii& Let m.e fl peak d, whi Iher in a the 81 tar as my teD Li geia-thc

• TrevalliOJl~ of

was take tun and face

ber, yet 1 am

; and here there ~ c display I to Jay in a high n gGnal j n shapeJ the w holt! southern · d w-an hnmeR!Je


III I

pecime om out ting de a huge , and writhe i en t vi Ii t ~ 8. eon tillual

h~eter on this huge one which

The ceilly loff..Yt ~Idest and

i-Druid~

f Eattern Oll t i and th re WH5 the ID Ind ian del, and J with a. p -like CBIl" of the ber stood


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I twas Sipotted esque figuNS;. ab ln the doth in p these ~ gur.es par k

ue onJy when By • .eon triva e to a very rem changeable in ey bore the app R farther ad va

j and, step by s the chamber be

succession of superstl tinn c f mbers of the)no . r heightened by ti D \la) euerent bideou.ei aDd nne

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u t little disquiet oediness of my t

e hut Iittle, I e rather pleasure a tred belQngi Ill' Hew baak-oh, i

the beloved, t I revel led in re J of her ]ofty~ ate, her idola trous 0 •

remainet the ......... ~ t tnarri a.ge-{lGNHH:r'II.I. 8 t my wi fe d.rea a t she ah u nued elp pe~eivil'Jg; be.rwise. I 108. demon thall to rn D.. intensi ty of reg t I the beautiful. t e 8 of her purity, r eal 11a ture, .of· ow, thee, dill

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with sudden w. The fever Wleasy j and in r s e pel k~ 0 f sounda

b r of the turret c distemper of ie inHuellces ength eon vales. iod ela psed ere ew her upon &

r framel at aU d Her iU nesses


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THE

motions 8.IJlOUg' til e ta a.lluded.

One nigbt n 1" the el · og this distressing subject 'Wi th

upon my atte tion, e b

Wlquiet slumbe I and I ad balf of anxiety half of emaeiated eeu Dance. bed. U POD O~ of the arose, a Ild sp e, in an ea I' wbich she then esrd, b t w tions w hicb abe then sa t bu _The wind wal Dshing UIT and I wished to show he (u Dot all believe) that tho al and thosn very gentle 'V riat wall, "ere but e na tur ing of the wi d. 811 t D. d her face bad p vcd to e t her 1'I0U Id be rni t less. Sh and no Ittenda was depcsited oldered by her hysi-cia

ber to procure t... But

the censer, tw eirea traeted lIly It n ti en. thODgh invisibl objC!Clt and I saw that there ] u very middle of the rich us toe 8hadow-a fai t, inde nite sueb as might b fancic for I was wild wit the eJ:ci eme

o en carpet, rom the ce f Ingejie

o of. shade. moderate

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