MYSTERY AND LORE OF APPARITIONS - Thompson, 1st 1930 - GHOSTS, SPIRITS, PHANTOMS

THE MYSTERY AND LORE OF APPARITIONS: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF GHOSTS, SPECTRES, PHANTOMS AND BOGGARTS IN EARLY TIMES Book Details + Condition: Harold Shaylor (London). First Edition, 1930. Hardcover with original tan striped cloth. 331 pages; illustrated. Volume by British occult author and physician Charles John Samuel Thompson (1862-1943) on the paranormal phenomena of ghosts. The comprehensive work explores these phenomena from the ancient Egyptian and Greek periods, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance of Europe, focusing on some specific accounts and types of ghosts and phantoms. Such accounts include phantom armies, lore of the sea, natural causes of apparitions, and more, with a focus on the lore of Great Britain. Other topics include: - Apparitions, Ghosts, Spectres and Phantoms Defined- Babylonian and Egyptian Ghost-lore- Greek Conceptions of Apparitions- Ghosts of the East- Ghosts in Early Christian Times- Ghost Mysteries of Old Castles- A Literary Ghost- London Ghost-lore- Some Scottish Ghosts- Church-yard Ghosts- Apparitions of Coaches and Horses- The Garments of Apparitions- Ghost-lore of the Sea- Phantom Armies- The Mystery of the Screaming Skulls- Some Quaint Ideas of the Origin of Ghosts- Visions and Dreams- Illusions and Hallucinations- And much more. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; some wear to boards, with darkening and rubbing present (mainly to front); small bits of cloth rubbed off front board, along with old cup stains; chafed spine ends, with darkening to spine; old bookworm damage to edges of rear inside board and last few pages (again to the edges); interior is clean and free of markings, save a few areas of age-spotting. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.