The Other World

About this book

A warning arrives in a dream, a figure appears beside a deathbed and a house develops a reputation that its occupants would rather forget. Frederick George Lee gathers accounts that nineteenth-century witnesses believed pointed towards another order of existence.

His two-volume work ranges through omens, second sight, witchcraft, apparitions and modern spiritualism. Lee, an Anglican clergyman, approached the reports from a Christian perspective while showing a keen appetite for extraordinary testimony. Many claims cannot be independently verified, but the collection vividly records how people tried to distinguish the miraculous from deception and coincidence.