The Night Side of Nature (1848 book)

The Night Side of Nature;
or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers

Title page of Vol. II, 1st 1848 ed.
Author	Catherine Crowe
Location	London
Pub. date	1848
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Night Side of Nature; or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers is an 1848 two-volume text by Catherine Crowe that documents cases of apparent psychical and ghostly phenomena, both of historical and then-contemporary Victorian origin.

Editions

• Crowe, Catherine (1848), The Night Side of Nature; or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers, I, London: T. C. Newby, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007687115 
• Crowe, Catherine (1848), The Night Side of Nature; or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers, II, London: T. C. Newby, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007687115 
• Crowe, Catherine (1850), The Night-Side of Nature; or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers, New York: J. S. Redfield, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008621774 
• Crowe, Catherine (1868), The Night-Side of Nature or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers, New York: W. J. Widdleton, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100599839 
• Crowe, Catherine (1901), The Night-Side of Nature or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers, Philadelphia: H. T. Coates & Company, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008894886 

Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Dwellers in the Temple
3. Waking and Sleeping, and How the Dweller in the Temple sometimes looks aboard
4. Allegorical Dreams, Presentiments, &c.
5. Warnings
6. Double Dreaming and Trance, Wraiths, &c.
7. Wraiths
8. Doppelgangers, or Doubles
9. Apparitions
10. The Future that awaits us
11. The Power of Will
12. Troubled Spirits
13. Haunted Houses
14. Spectral Lights, and Apparitions attached to Certain Families
15. Apparitions seeking the Prayers of the Living
16. The Poltergeist of the Germans, and Possession
17. Miscellaneous Phenomena
18. Conclusion