Skip to main content.

Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers

The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of the after-life. Crowe's vivid tales, written with great energy and imagination, are classic examples of nineteenth-century spiritualist writing and strongly influenced other authors as well as providing inspiration for later adherents of ghost-seeing and psychic culture. - Summary by Cambridge University Press (17 hr 39 min)

Chapters

Preface

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - The Dweller in the Temple

Chapter 3 - Waking and Sleeping; and How The Dweller in the Temple Sometimes Lo…

Chapter 4 - Allegorical Dreams, Presentiment, Etc.

Chapter 5 - Warnings (Part 1)

Chapter 5 - Warnings (Part 2)

Chapter 6 - Double-Dreaming and Trance (Part 1)

Chapter 6 - Double-Dreaming and Trance (Part 2)

Chapter 7 - Wraiths

Chapter 8 - Doppelgangers, or Doubles

Chapter 9 - Apparitions (Part 1)

Chapter 9 - Apparitions (Part 2)

Chapter 10 - The Future that Awaits Us (Part 1)

Chapter 10 - The Future that Awaits Us (Part 2)

Chapter 11 - The Power of Will

Chapter 12 - Troubled Spirits

Chapter 13 - Haunted Houses (Part 1)

Chapter 13 - Haunted Houses (Part 2)

Chapter 13 - Haunted Houses (Part 3)

Chapter 14 - Spectral Lights, and Apparitions Attached to Certain Families (Par…

Chapter 14 - Spectral Lights, and Apparitions Attached to Certain Families (Par…

Chapter 15 - Apparitions Seeking the Prayers of the Living (Part 1)

Chapter 15 - Apparitions Seeking the Prayers of the Living (Part 2)

Chapter 16 - The Poltergeist of the Germans, and Possession (Part 1)

Chapter 16 - The Poltergeist of the Germans, and Possession (Part 2)

Chapter 17 - Miscellaneous Phenomena

Chapter 18 - Conclusion