Denneker's Meditations

Origin: a fictional book first mentioned by Ambrose Bierce in "A Psychological Shipwreck"

Description

A "rum lot" (strange book), "that rare and curious work". A fictional plot device used by Ambrose Bierce for the purpose of supplying paragraphs of exposition on supernatural matters, describing ghosts, specters, wraiths, their kind and their habits and qualities. Presumably contains a compilation of reflections upon the supernatural written by (?) Denneker.

Version 1

Language: English

Physical Description: ?

General Content: Contains Denneker's meditations, research, and studies upon the nature, habits, and powers of ghosts and other spirits.

Number of known copies (if rare): "rare and curious", the number of published volumes is unknown

Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): one copy might be found in the private library of Staley Fleming, one copy was lost at sea with one Janette Harford, and another might be found in the private library of Gordon Doyle of Liverpool, England.

Mythos Content Spells: none

• Sanity Loss: minimal
• Mythos Knowledge: low
• Occult Knowledge: moderate

Quotes

• "To sundry it is given to be drawn away, and to be apart from the body for a season; for, as concerning rills which would flow across each other the weaker is borne along by the stronger, so there be certain of kin whose paths intersecting, their souls do bear company, the while their bodies go fore-appointed ways, unknowing."
  - Ambrose Bierce, "A Psychological Shipwreck"
• "Forasmuch as it is ordained of God that all flesh hath spirit and thereby taketh on spiritual powers, so, also, the spirit hath powers of the flesh, even when it is gone out of the flesh and liveth as a thing apart, as many a violence performed by wraith and lemure sheweth. And there be who say that man is not single in this, but the beasts have the like evil inducement...."
  - Ambrose Bierce, "Staley Fleming's Hallucination"

Appearances

• Fiction:
  • Ambrose Bierce, "A Psychological Shipwreck"
  • Ambrose Bierce, "Staley Fleming's Hallucination"

Associated Mythos Content, Keeper Notes

• race:
  • Ghosts
  • Elementals
  • Faeries
  • Residual Hauntings
  • Poltergeists
  • Demons
• location:
  • Other Side