Book/Printed Material True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural,
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- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 7 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, TRUE TALES OF THE WEIRD
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 9 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, TRUE TALES OF THE WEIRD A Record of Personal Experiences of the Supernatural BY SIDNEY DICKINSON With an Introduction By R. H. STETSON Professor of Psychology Oberlin College And a Prefatory Note...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 10 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, ■K Copyright, 1920, by DUFFIELD AND COMPANY 16 I92Q Printed in the United States of America ©CI.A604585
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 11 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, CONTENTS PAGE Prefatory Note vii Introduction 1 Author s Preface 5 I A Mystery of Two Continents 11 A Spirit of Health 25 The Miracle of the Flowers 41 The Midnight Horseman...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 12 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural,
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 13 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, PREFATORY NOTE It is a pleasure to testify that the MS. of this volume of stories has been submitted with abundant testimonies from the individuals who knew their author and his facts...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 14 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural,
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 15 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, INTRODUCTION This account of striking and peculiar events by Mr. Sidney Dickinson is but the fulfillment of an intention of the writer interrupted by sud- den death. Mr. Dickinson had taken careful...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 16 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, INTRODUCTION testifies to its intrinsic interest. But the char- acter and personality of the writer is a vital con- sideration. Mr. Sidney Dickinson was a pro- fessional journalist and lecturer. After gradua-...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 17 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, INTRODUCTION have been no ulterior motive as the account itself will show. The narrative was written be- cause he felt that it might well be a contribu- tion of some scientific interest....
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 19 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, AUTHOR S PREFACE These stories are not founded upon fact they are fact. If I may claim any merit for them it is this they are absolutely and literally true. They seem...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 20 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, author s preface than expectant; my experience, which I think this book will show to have been considerable, in the observation of occult phenomena has failed to afford me anything like a...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 21 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, author s preface opinion has been reached to others it will be inconceivable, as based upon what seems to them impossible. If what I have written should seem to throw any light,...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 23 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, TRUE TALES OF THE WEIRD
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 24 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural,
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 25 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, A MYSTERY OF TWO CONTINENTS This story, as well as the one that immedi- ately follows it, was first related to the late Wilkie Collins, the noted English novelist, with whom I...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 26 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, TRUE TALES OF THE WEIRD lated brain, not actual existences. Why, I have seen thousands of ghosts myself! Many a night, after writing until two o clock in the morning, and fortifying...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 27 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, A MYSTERY OF TWO CONTINENTS Some years ago, in the course of a tour of art study which took me through the principal countries of Europe, I found myself in Naples, having...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 28 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, TRUE TALES OF THE WEIRD contrasting the conditions attending their Washington s Birthday with those in which I fortunately found myself. Returning to Naples, the many interests of that city put out...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 29 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, A MYSTERY OF TWO CONTINENTS an announcement that letters posted before four o clock that afternoon would be forwarded to catch the mail for New York by a specially fast steamer for...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 30 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, TRUE TALES OF THE WEIRD ice and snow and bitter cold which are probably your experience at this season. Having finished the letter, I took from the guide-book on Central Italy which...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 31 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, A MYSTERY OF TWO CONTINENTS is no question that I did so, and. make what fol- lowed more than ever inexplicable. So much for the beginning of the affair in Italy; now...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 32 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, TRUE TALES OF THE WEIRD night, and saw standing at the foot of her bed the form of the child s mother. The aspect of the apparition was so serene and gracious...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 33 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, A MYSTERY OF TWO CONTINENTS The vision of the night before was at once forcibly recalled to her, and the words of the apparition, I have brought you some flowers, seemed to...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 34 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, TRUE TALES OF THE WEIRD course mentioned the enclosure of flowers from Capri and from the Tomb of Cecilia Metella. There were, however, no flowers whatever in the letter, although each sheet...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 35 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, A MYSTERY OF TWO CONTINENTS mens, however, coupled with the scent they still faintly retain and which is characteristic, in- cline me to the opinion that they came from some part of...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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- Date: 1920
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Image 37 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, A SPIRIT OF HEALTH
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 38 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural,
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 39 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, A SPIRIT OF HEALTH It is common, and, in the main, a well- founded objection to belief in so-called super- natural manifestations, that they seem in general to subserve no purpose of...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920
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Image 40 of True tales of the weird; a record of personal experiences of the supernatural, TRUE TALES OF THE WEIRD the late Wilkie Collins, as set forth in the preceding story although I should be inclined to extend that opinion far enough to include the admission of...
- Contributor: Dickinson, Sidney
- Date: 1920