One night last year in Paris I was strongly impelled to take up a pencil and write, though what I was to write about I had no idea. Yielding to the impulse, my hand was seized as if from the outside, and a remarkable message of a personal nature came, followed by the signature “X.” The purport of the message was clear, but the signature puzzled me. The following day I showed this writing to a friend, asking her if she had any idea who “X” was. “Why,” she replied, “don’t you know that that ...

Does life go on beyond the grave? With the recent surge in popularity of topics focused on life after death Letters from the Afterlife originally published in 1914 under another title takes up this age-old question from a unique perspective - that of a man who has undergone ''the great change'' and has crossed the threshold we call death. Written through the hand of Elsa Barker an established author in her own right Letters presents a kind of ''astral travelogue&...

This collection of sixteen stories contains a mixture of stories about ghosts and contacts from spirits, some by celebrated authors, together with essays on psychical research.As Joseph French notes in the preface, even for the skeptic, tales of ghostly activity retain a distinct fascination. The widespread interest in psychic phenomena in the early twentieth century proved to be a significant stimulus to literary production.CONTENTS“When the ...