Bewilderments of Vision

Hallucination was always the ghost storys elephant in the room. Even before the vogue for psychical research and spiritualism began to influence writers at the end of the nineteenth century, tales of horror and the supernatural, of ghosts and demons, had been haunted by the possibility of some grand deception by the senses. But what is ...

Halucinatia a fost intotdeauna elefantul povestilor cu fantome din camera. Chiar si inainte ca moda pentru cercetarea psihica si spiritualism sa inceapa sa influenteze scriitorii la sfarsitul secolului al XIX-lea, povestile despre groaza si supranatural, despre fantome si demoni, fusesera bantuite de posibilitatea unor mari inselaciuni de catre simturi.