CONTENTS

[Introduction ]vii
[I. Science's Attitude towards the "Supernatural" ]1
[II. The Hypnotic State ]13
[III. Phantasms of the Living ]35
[IV. Dreams ]59
[V. Hallucinations ]82
[VI. Phantasms of the Dead ]100
[VII. On "Hauntings" and Kindred Phenomena ]124
[VIII. The Dowsing or Divining Rod ]159
[IX. Mediumistic Phenomena ]180
[X. More Physical Phenomena ]201
[XI. The Materialisation of "Ghosts" ]217
[XII. Spirit-Photography ]235
[XIII. Clairvoyance ]251
[XIV. Mrs Piper's Trance Utterances ]271
[Afterword ]288
[Publications of T. Werner Laurie.]