The
Professional and Other Psychic Stories
Edited by A. Goodrich-Freer (Miss X)
There is a legend current in the
Society for Psychical Research, that some little time ago certain in
authority became deeply interested in the narratives of a correspondent
whose experiences were varied and startling. These coming under the notice
of the then President, calm and philosophic, it was pointed out that in
certain details they appeared to contradict such canons as had previously
been deduced from the well-authenticated depositions of earlier witnesses
to accounts of similar character. It subsequently transpired that the
correspondent in question had industriously transcribed his
“experiences” from old magazine stories. From this fragment of
folk-lore we may gather, that even in Psychical Research, a branch of
learning in which all are ignorant and some are unbelieving, there are,
even at the present elementary stage of the inquiry, certain rules and
standards, the violation of which brings such punishment as awaits
intellectual sin.
In editing the present volume of stories, not before published, I
have been careful to select only such as, to the best of my knowledge,
are, even if specifically fancy, generically fact. Four are directly taken
from life, and the remainder, though
“daring
to depart
From
sober truth, are still to nature true.”
A. GOODRICH-FREER
Contents
A. Goodrich-Freer
- A Professional Person
A. Goodrich-Freer
- Another Professional Person
A. Goodrich-Freer
- A Dead Man’s Evidence
Olive Burrell - The History of Malcolm Mackenzie
Christabel Coleridge - Alice and Alicia
M. E. Bramston - A Closed Door
G. M. Robins - The Haunting of White Gates
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