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The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
The stories delve into eerie encounters, often exploring themes of fear, the uncanny, and the unknown, as they bring to life the unsettling experiences of characters who confront malevolent forces and haunted spaces.
"The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories" by Algernon Blackwood is a collection of supernatural tales. The stories delve into eerie encounters, often exploring themes of fear, the uncanny, and the unknown, as they bring to life the unsettling experiences of characters who confront malevolent forces and haunted spaces.
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Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are evil. Willy nilly, they seem to communicate an atmosphere of secret and wicked thoughts which makes those in their immediate neighbourhood shrink from them as from a thing diseased.
And, perhaps, with houses the same principle is operative, and it is the aroma of evil deeds committed under a particular roof, long after the actual doers have passed away, that makes the gooseflesh come and the hair rise. Something of the original passion of the evil-doer, and of the horror felt by his victim, enters the heart of the innocent watcher, and he becomes suddenly conscious of tingling nerves, creeping skin, and a chilling of the blood. He is terror-stricken without apparent cause.
Contents
- 01The Empty House
- 02A Haunted Island
- 03A Case of Eavesdropping
- 04Keeping His Promise
- 05With Intent to Steal
- 06The Wood of the Dead
- 07Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House
- 08A Suspicious Gift
- 09The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York
- 10I
- 11II
- 12III
- 13Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp
- 14John Silence
- 15by Algernon Blackwood
- 16Uniform Edition 3s. 6d. net
- 17Eveleigh Nash Company Limited 36 King Street, Covent Garden, London, W.c.
- 18The Lost Valley
- 19by Algernon Blackwood
- 20Uniform Edition 3s. 6d. net
- 21Eveleigh Nash Company Limited 36 King Street, Covent Garden, London, W.c.
- 22The Listener
- 23by Algernon Blackwood
- 24Uniform Edition 3s. 6d. net
- 25Eveleigh Nash Company Limited 36 King Street, Covent Garden, London, W.c.
About this edition
- Author
- Algernon Blackwood
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 205 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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