Chapter I

What is a Ghost? 13
The Terror of the Dark 14
What is a Ghost? 18
Historic Investigations 20
Death Coincidences 21
Are They Due to Chance? 24
The Explanation 26
Experimental Apparitions 27
Telepathic Hallucinations 32
Ghosts Which Move Material Objects 37
Photographs of Ghosts 38
The "Double" and the Spiritual Body 40
What Happens at the Moment of Death 43
How the Soul May Leave the Body 47
Theories of Haunted Houses 51
The Ghosts of Animals 53
The Clothes of Ghosts 55
Telepathy from the Dead 57
The Psychic Atmosphere 59
Forms Created by Will 60
Physical Manifestations 62
Can Haunted Houses be "Cured"? 63

CHAPTER II
Phantasms of the Dead--I 65
A Russian Ghost 65
Grasped by a Spirit Hand 71
"I Am Shot!" 74
"Heave the Lead!" 75
The Rescue at Sea 78
How Ghosts Influence Us 86
How a Ghost Warned the King 90
The Stains of Blood 93
Face to Face 96
"Julia, Darling!" 98
The Cut Across the Cheek 99
The Invisible Hand 100
The Apparition of the Radiant Boy 104
Fisher's Ghost 106
Harriet Hosmer's Vision 109
The Apparition of the Murdered Boy 112
The Ghost in Yellow Calico 116

CHAPTER III
More Phantasms of the Dead--II 120
Compacts to Appear after Death 120
Lord Brougham's Vision 122
The Tyrone Ghost 125
Dead or Alive! 128
The Scratch on the Cheek 135
A Ghost in Hampton Court 139
Half-Past One O'clock 147
My Own True Ghost Story 155

CHAPTER IV
Haunted Houses 163
The Record of a Haunted House 165
Proofs of Immateriality 168
Conduct of Animals in the House 169
B---- House 170
Willington Mill 174
The Great Amherst Mystery 176
Brook House 186

CHAPTER V
Ghost Stories of a More Dramatic Nature 194
Disease-Phantoms 194
The Tale of a Mummy 198
Face Slapped by a Ghost 204
Alone with a Ghost in Church 207
A Haunted House in France 210
A Haunted House in Georgia 213
Shaken by a Ghost 220
The House and the Brain 221

APPENDIX A
Historical Ghosts 230

APPENDIX B
The Phantom Armies Seen in France 236