Algernon Blackwood

The Wendigo is a novella by Algernon Blackwood, first published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories (Eveleigh Nash, 1910). In the wilderness north of Rat Portage in Northwestern Ontario, two Scotsmen - divinity student Simpson and his uncle, Dr. Cathcart, an author of a book on collective hallucination - are on a moose-hunting trip with guides Hank Davis and the wilderness-loving French "Canuck", Joseph Défago. While their Indian cook, Punk, stays...

Jimbo: A Fantasy (1909) is a novel by Algernon Blackwood. Having already established himself as a promising short story writer, Blackwood published his debut novel at the age of 40. A lifelong occultist, Blackwood was interested in the fine line between the human and spiritual realms, often incorporating supernatural elements into his work. Jimbo: A Fantasy is a story of a young boy's out of body experience after sustaining a terrible injury, a narrative...

Curl up with a collection of mystery and horror tales from an author whom many critics regard as one of the masters of the genre. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories showcases some of Algernon Blackwood's finest -- and most spine-tingling -- short fiction. Whether you're a longtime fan of Blackwood's work or a first-time reader who's curious about this giant of the genre, you're in for a deliciously spooky ride.

Compiled in one essential collection, the best books by Algernon Blackwood: The Centaur, The Damned, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, The Extra Day, Four Weird Tales, The Garden of Survival, The Human Chord, The Man Whom The Trees Loved, A Prisoner In Fairyland, and The Wendigo.

Three spooky tales, one conventional ghost story, one tale of the wilderness, and one otherworldly puzzle to unsolved. The stories have a charmingly antique feel to them.

This collection includes all five stories featuring Blackwood's psychic detective, John Silence, M.D., each of the tales is compelling in the way all good Blackwood is compelling: each features a leisurely exposition followed by a slow series of incremental complications which both inform and disarm the mesmerised reader until he is prepared for the well-executed conclusion. (Goodreads)

In "The Extra Day Blackwood" not only takes us into the minds of three young people adventuring in the world for the first time, but makes us feel their excitement and zeal at witnessing the most mundane things. Algernon's alchemy is such that the whisper of the wind and the swaying of a tree becomes something magical and spectacular, and gives us the sense of a whole world waiting just a breath away.

The First Algernon Blackwood MEGAPACK® collects 36 classic tales of the supernatural by one of the greatest ghost story writers of all time. More than just ghosts, however, this collection includes tales of vampires and other creatures of the night...and much, much more. Hours of great reading await! Included are: THE WILLOWSTHE WENDIGOTHE SINGULAR DEATH OF MORTONTHE OLIVEANCIENT LIGHTSTHE KIT-BAGTHE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOMA HAUNTED ISLANDTHE CENTAURTHE...

The Garden of Survival, written in 1918, began in Blackwood's usual polished and expressive style. His protagonist, Richard, a former military man now making a living as a foreign diplomat in Africa, details in epistolary format his musings of life and love. We are informed of his having been married for a very short time --his wife, a vision of beauty and possessing a special talent to bewitch admirers by playing her alluring harp for them is 'Je...