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
Chapters
1 Preface 5 min 2 Chapter 1 - Introduction 40 min 3 Chapter 2 - The Dweller in the Temple 21 min 4 Chapter 3 - Waking and Sleeping; and How The Dweller in the Temple Sometimes Looks Abroad 44 min 5 Chapter 4 - Allegorical Dreams, Presentiment, Etc 37 min 6 Chapter 5 - Warnings (Part 1) 40 min 7 Chapter 5 - Warnings (Part 2) 36 min 8 Chapter 6 - Double-Dreaming and Trance (Part 1) 32 min 9 Chapter 6 - Double-Dreaming and Trance (Part 2) 52 min 10 Chapter 7 - Wraiths 41 min 11 Chapter 8 - Doppelgangers, or Doubles 48 min 12 Chapter 9 - Apparitions (Part 1) 47 min 13 Chapter 9 - Apparitions (Part 2) 41 min 14 Chapter 10 - The Future that Awaits Us (Part 1) 48 min 15 Chapter 10 - The Future that Awaits Us (Part 2) 44 min 16 Chapter 11 - The Power of Will 30 min 17 Chapter 12 - Troubled Spirits 1 h 2 min 18 Chapter 13 - Haunted Houses (Part 1) 38 min 19 Chapter 13 - Haunted Houses (Part 2) 32 min 20 Chapter 13 - Haunted Houses (Part 3) 18 min 21 Chapter 14 - Spectral Lights, and Apparitions Attached to Certain Families (Part 1) 26 min 22 Chapter 14 - Spectral Lights, and Apparitions Attached to Certain Families (Part 2) 30 min 23 Chapter 15 - Apparitions Seeking the Prayers of the Living (Part 1) 25 min 24 Chapter 15 - Apparitions Seeking the Prayers of the Living (Part 2) 27 min 25 Chapter 16 - The Poltergeist of the Germans, and Possession (Part 1) 49 min 26 Chapter 16 - The Poltergeist of the Germans, and Possession (Part 2) 57 min 27 Chapter 17 - Miscellaneous Phenomena 49 min 28 Chapter 18 - Conclusion 38 min
