The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108027502)

The novelist and children's author Catherine Crowe (c.1800-1876) published The Night Side of Nature in two volumes in 1848. This lively collection of ghostly sketches and anecdotes was a Victorian best-seller and Crowe's most popular work. Sixteen editions appeared in six years, and it was translated into several European languages. The stories are intertwined with Crowe's own interpretations and commentaries which attack the scepticism of enlightenment thought and orthodox religion. Crowe seeks instead to encourage and re-invigorate a sense of wonder and mystery in life by emphasising the supernatural. Volume 2 probes the mysterious phenomena of troubled spirits, haunted houses, spectral lights, apparitions and poltergeists. Crowe's vivid tales, written with great energy and imagination, are classic examples of nineteenth-century spiritualist writing and strongly influenced other authors, including Charles Baudelaire, as well as providing inspiration for later adherents of ghost-seeing and psychic culture.

Author: Catherine Crowe
ISBN-10: 1108027504
ISBN-13: 9781108027502
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2011
Pages: 394
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d