The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

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Andrew Lang investigates famous stories of ghosts and the paranormal. Subjects include; Common Features of Ghosts and Dreams, Mark Twain’s Story, St. Augustine’s Story, Past, Present and Future unknown Events “revealed”, Mr. Williams’s Dream before Mr. Perceval’s Murder, A Celtic Dream, Transition from Dreams to Waking Hallucinations, Voluntary or Induced Hallucinations, The Benedictine’s Voices, The Man at the Lift, Case at Ballachulish, Transition to Appearances of the Dead, The Ghosts of Dogs, The Amherst Mystery, and many more.**About the AuthorAndrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture On Fairy-Stories.