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The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

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First published: 1906
Pages: 184

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The Empty House
36:14
A Haunted Island
41:30
A Case of Eavesdropping
33:31
Keeping his Promise
30:57
With Intent to Steal Part 1
20:10
With Intent to Steal Part 2
29:55
The Wood of the Dead
37:22
Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House
48:39
A Suspicious Gift
26:22
The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York Part I
38:38
The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York Part II
27:39
The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York Part III
29:17
Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp
21:22

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About this book

This early collection gathers supernatural tales from Algernon Blackwood, one of the finest ghost-story writers in the English language. The title piece sends two nervous relatives into a house known for its hauntings, where the very rooms seem to remember an old crime. The other stories range across possession, premonition, and the thin places where the ordinary world gives way to something older and colder. Blackwood is less interested in shock than in dread, in the slow prickle of unease as his characters sense a presence they cannot name. First published in 1906, the volume shows the atmospheric power that would soon make later tales like The Willows famous among readers of weird fiction. Free to read here in PDF and EPUB.

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Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English author of supernatural fiction, admired by Lovecraft as a master of the weird. His stories evoke a numinous terror rooted in the natural world.