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Algernon Blackwood

(1869 - 1951)

A Case of Eavesdropping

Jim Shorthouse was stranded high and dry in a large American city, and he went to find living quarters. One night he came home tired after a long day's work, and heard someone unlock his door and...

29 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Accessory Before the Fact

At the moorland cross-roads, Martin stood examining the sign-post in some bewilderment, but then realized that he had taken the wrong turning. The loneliness of the country about him haunted...

12 min read · Rating: G · Read story

A Haunted Island

The following events occurred on a small island in a large Canadian lake. I only found two mirrors, and spent the rest of the day taking stock of the situation. A week passed by, and I progressed...

33 min read · Rating: R · Read story

Ancient Lights

From Southwater, where he left the train, the road led due west. A man dressed like a gamekeeper in browny green hit the surveyor's clerk on the legs with a switch and went straight on. A new glade...

13 min read · Rating: G · Read story

A Suspicious Gift

Blake had been in very low water for months and wondered when his luck was going to turn again. Blake scratched his head and concluded that the man might be a secretary or a chief clerk. The man...

22 min read · Rating: G · Read story

May Day Eve

In the spring I found time to visit my friend and fell into a pleasant reverie. The weather changed abruptly and I felt suspicious about myself because my poetic sense had suddenly opened up in...

43 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Keeping His Promise

Young Marriott was locked into his room and pulled himself together at last, but volunteered nothing while the host carried on a running one-sided conversation. Field tip-toed across the floor to...

28 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Max Hensig

Williams had worked his way up to stand easily among the first half-dozen;. Cover, but he scorned the Hensig case. The two reporters followed the warder down the flagged corridor, where they found...

96 min read · Rating: R · Read story

Sand

Felix Henriot came through the streets of London on a January night, and remembered an opportune invitation to the Desert. Helouan danced into letters of brilliance upon the inner map of his...

153 min read · Rating: R · Read story

Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp

The utter loneliness of our moose-camp on Skeleton Lake impressed us from the beginning. The professor was discussing the dangers of hunting alone in couples when I became bored and started looking...

18 min read · Rating: G · Read story

Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House

When I was a medical student, I came across one or two very curious human beings. One of them awakened my sense of horror. A short, thick-set man of forty-five, with immense shoulders and small,...

33 min read · Rating: R · Read story

The Empty House

Certain houses manage to proclaim at once their character for evil. Shorthouse agreed to go to visit his Aunt Julia. A few minutes later they stopped before a tall, narrow house that rose before...

31 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story