The Best Psychic Stories (Classic Reprint)

Every writer of true imagination, almost without exception, including even certain realists, has given us at least one story, long or short, in which the central motive is purely psychical in the Greek sense of the word. The whole subject opens up a virgin field which has after all only begun to be tilled. Within the coming generation we may look for great artists to devote their whole powers to it, as Algernon Blackwood is doing to-day. A simple underlying reason is enough to account for it all the new field imposes simply no limit on the imagination. In addition to all that science has taught us, there is illimitable store of myth and legend to aid, to draw from, to work in, to work over, asL ord Dunsany has shown us. It is the most significant movement in literature at the present hour, and whether it is supported by a special background of interest as at present in spiritism or not, the assertion is logical that it is creating a new body of fictional literature of permanent importance for the first time in the history of literature. The human comedy seems to have been exploited to its final limits; as the art of the novel, the art of the stage, but too sadly prove to-day. We have turned outward for new thrills to the supernatural and we are getting them. It only remains to be added that the present great interest in spiritualism and allied phenomena has made necessary the addition of certain material of a literal ycharacter which we believe will be found quite as interesting by the general reader as the purely literary portion of the book.
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