Their experiments were conducted in the following manner: At a pre-arranged hour Mr. Bessel shut himself in one of his rooms in the Albany and Mr. Vincey in his sitting-room in Staple Inn, and each then fixed his mind as resolutely as possible on the other. Mr. Bessel had acquired the art of self-hypnotism, and, so far as he could, he attempted first to hypnotise himself and then to project himself as a "phantom of the living" across the intervening space of nearly two miles into Mr. Vincey's apartment. On several evenings this was tried without any satisfactory result, but on the fifth or sixth occasion Mr. Vincey did actually see or imagine he saw an apparition of Mr. Bessel standing in his room. He states that the appearance, although brief, was very vivid and real. He noticed that Mr. Bessel's face was white and his expression anxious, and, moreover, that his hair was disordered. For a moment Mr. Vincey, in spite of his state of expectation, was too surprised to speak or move, and in that moment it seemed to him as though the figure glanced over its shoulder and incontinently vanished.
Synopsis
A mild-mannered 19th Century clerk dreams of being a world leader in an apocalyptic future. But is it just a dream?
Table of Contents
1. FILMER 2
2. THE MAGIC SHOP 14
3. THE VALLEY OF SPIDERS 26
4. THE TRUTH ABOUT PYECRAFT 37
5. MR. SKELMERSDALE IN FAIRYLAND 49
6. THE STORY OF THE INEXPERIENCED GHOST 60
7. JIMMY GOGGLES THE GOD 73
8. THE NEW ACCELERATOR 82
9. MR. LEDBETTER'S VACATION 95
10. THE STOLEN BODY 109
11. MR. BRISHER'S TREASURE 120
12. MISS WINCHELSEA'S HEART 130
13. A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON 142
About the Author
H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells -- Born: 9/21/1866
Birthplace: Bromley, Kent, England
Pioneering writer whose novels The Time Machine (1985), The Invisible Man (1897) and War of the Worlds (1898) were among the first science-fiction books. Wells wrote popular comic novels, essays examining the problems of modern life, a one-volume history of the world and an autobiography.
