True Tales of the Weird: A Record of Personal Experiences, of the Supernatural
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Excerpt from True Tales of the Weird: A Record of Personal Experiences, of the Supernatural (Classic Reprint)
b'"They are\x85 Moving human documents, with a strong literary appeal." \x96 Gertrude Ogden Tubby, Assistant Secretary, American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR).
Author Sidney Dickinson opens his preface with a provocative line:
"These stories are not "founded upon fact"; they are fact."
Reading 220 pages of his collection of personal experiences of the
weird" and "supernatural," you would be inclined to agree. The fact that all accounts are done in first person gives you little room for argument \x96 how can you dispute a personal experience?
The accounts are fraught with detailed descriptions and background information of people and places mentioned in each story. This is apparently done to help the reader fully appreciate the significance of certain events that have taken an odd turn.
However, the lengthy accompanying explanations and descriptions unfortunately made the statements more long-winded than they should be. This is despite the fact that this book was published in 1920 \x96 a time when long sentences were the norm in written works. As a result, the accounts are more yawn-inducing than interesting; one can get lost in the details and end up needing to backtrack in order to get a grip of what the author is actually trying to say.
As with the "strong literary appeal" endorsement, this may be seen in the way the author describes places, people, and circumstances. However, these descriptions distract one from the fact that the author is sharing an account of a strange event because the supposedly chill-inducing momentum is lost at times. It instead stimulates bouts of selective reading just to get past the overly descriptive parts.
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some errors may persist, however we consider it worth publishing due to the work\'s historical value.\n
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| Listing Type | Gallery Listing |
| Listing ID# | 218073185 |
| Start Time | Wed 26 Jul 2023 18:45:46 (CEST) |
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