Joseph Lewis French’in kendi deyimiyle sanat, nihayetinde bizzat doğaüstü bir oluşumdur. Helena Blavatsky’den Edgar Allen Poe’ya, George Wharton Edwards’dan Jack London’a geniş bir yelpaze oluşturan bu eser, güncel edebiyatta sık karşılaşmadığımız, kökleri Yunan trajedilerine kadar uzanan doğaüstü ve psişik temalar üzerine kurulu hikâyeleri bir araya getiriyor. İnsan zihninin katmanları, ruhanî varlıklar, medyumluk gibi konuları merkezine alan ve tansiyonu bol hikâyelerden oluşan Joseph Lewis French’in bu titiz derlemesi, keyifli ve gergin bir okuma vadediyor.
It was a pretty decent collection of psychic/ghostly stories, compiled in 1923, so there's that to take into consideration. Like any compilation of stories from various authors from different decades there are some that you are bound to like while others not at all. Some were traditional short stories while others took the tone of reading a medical journal or a research paper. And then there were a couple that just flew over my head for one reason or another.
All-in-all, a good collection that I would recommend to people who like to read early 20th century literature.