The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers, credited to Catherine Crowe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers by Catherine Crowe. Read in English by Marialuisa Ruiz; Garrett Goodison; Amy Gramour; DrPGould; Paezra; dg73; Warren Kati; realisticspeakers; Mayah; S.E. Ross; William McKnight; Julie Barkley; Liana Leite The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of the after-life. Crowe's vivid tales, written with great energy and imagination, are classic examples of nineteenth-century spiritualist writing and strongly influenced other authors as well as providing inspiration for later adherents of ghost-seeing and psychic culture. - Summary by Cambridge University Press

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers
• Author credits: Catherine Crowe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 17:39:46

Catalogue topics

• ghosts
• hauntings
• Will
• apparitions
• psychic
• seers
• spririts
• wraiths

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 00 - Preface — 5:02
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - Introduction — 39:59
3. 02 - Chapter 2 - The Dweller in the Temple — 21:22
4. 03 - Chapter 3 - Waking and Sleeping; and How The Dweller in the Temple Sometimes Looks Abroad — 43:51
5. 04 - Chapter 4 - Allegorical Dreams, Presentiment, Etc. — 37:27
6. 05 - Chapter 5 - Warnings (Part 1) — 39:34
7. 06 - Chapter 5 - Warnings (Part 2) — 36:09
8. 07 - Chapter 6 - Double-Dreaming and Trance (Part 1) — 32:07
9. 08 - Chapter 6 - Double-Dreaming and Trance (Part 2) — 52:25
10. 09 - Chapter 7 - Wraiths — 40:47
11. 10 - Chapter 8 - Doppelgangers, or Doubles — 48:29
12. 11 - Chapter 9 - Apparitions (Part 1) — 47:18
13. 12 - Chapter 9 - Apparitions (Part 2) — 40:52
14. 13 - Chapter 10 - The Future that Awaits Us (Part 1) — 48:27
15. 14 - Chapter 10 - The Future that Awaits Us (Part 2) — 44:12
16. 15 - Chapter 11 - The Power of Will — 29:37
17. 16 - Chapter 12 - Troubled Spirits — 1:02:19
18. 17 - Chapter 13 - Haunted Houses (Part 1) — 38:17
19. 18 - Chapter 13 - Haunted Houses (Part 2) — 31:56
20. 19 - Chapter 13 - Haunted Houses (Part 3) — 17:56
21. 20 - Chapter 14 - Spectral Lights, and Apparitions Attached to Certain Families (Part 1) — 25:53
22. 21 - Chapter 14 - Spectral Lights, and Apparitions Attached to Certain Families (Part 2) — 30:07
23. 22 - Chapter 15 - Apparitions Seeking the Prayers of the Living (Part 1) — 25:23
24. 23 - Chapter 15 - Apparitions Seeking the Prayers of the Living (Part 2) — 27:08

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