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    105 Books (1 Series)
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    June 1973
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

John Silence

1 - A Psychical Invasion (Jan-2002)
2 - Ancient Sorceries (Jan-2002)

Book List in Order: 105 titles

  • Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

    A woman of snow . . . a midnight caller keeping his promise . . . forests where Nature is deliberate and malefic . . . enchanted houses . . . these are the beings and ideas that flood through this collection of ghost stories by Algernon Blackwood (18...

  • Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural: Volume I

    Algernon Blackwood continues to demonstrate the power of his words as he shocks and disturbs in this collection of supernatural tales. In a world where the line between sanity and insanity becomes increasingly blurred, tales such as 'Violence' demons...

  • The Magic Mirror

  • Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural: Volume II

  • Great Ghost Stories

  • Ancient Sorceries

    John Silence - 2

    Welcome to the casebook of Dr John Silence, Physician Extraordinary. After a long and severe training â€" five years he was gone from the face of the earth, travelling who knows where â€" Silence returned to England as the greatest occult detective o...

  • A Psychical Invasion

    John Silence - 1

    Dr. Silence was a free-lance, though, among doctors, having neither consulting-room, bookkeeper, nor professional manner. He took no fees, being at heart a genuine philanthropist, yet at the same time did no harm to his fellow-practitioners, becau...

  • The Garden of Survival

    "The strange, unbidden sentence stirred her. Her head moved slightly; she smiled. Gazing into my eyes intently, as though to dispel a mist that shrouded both our minds, she went on in a whisper that yet was startlingly distinct, though with little...

  • The Willows

    East of Vienna, a canoe trip down the length of the Danube River turns strange and horrifying. The two men traveling find it bad enough when they are forced to camp on an isolated island in the middle of nowhere while gale-force winds howl and waters...



  • The Centaur

    Set in the Caucasus between the Black and Caspian Seas, The Centaur centres on Terence O’Malley, a journalist of mystical temperament who is studying the peoples of the area. O’Malley, at odds with the pace and materialism of the modern world, re...

  • The Damned

    And instinctively, once alone, I made for the places where she had painted her extraordinary pictures; I tried to see what she had seen. Perhaps, now that she had opened my mind to another view, I should be sensitive to some similar interpretation--a...

  • The Man Whom the Trees Loved

    He painted trees as by some special divining instinct of their essential qualities. He understood them. He knew why in an oak forest, for instance, each individual was utterly distinct from its fellows, and why no two beeches in the whole world we...

  • Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales

    Dr John Silence, Algernon Blackwood’s psychic detective, confronts strange and frightening extrasensory phenomena. His cases here include the nocturnal cat-people of a French village and a tale of Egyptian reincarnation. The settings range from the...

  • Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

    By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread t...

  • The Bright Messenger

    Edward Fillery is the child of a brief but passionate liaison between an engineer and a strangely beautiful peasant girl. Blessed with special insight and with a ‘primal quality’ in his blood, Edward becomes a doctor, helping and healing those wi...

  • The Human Chord

    As a boy, Robert Spinrobin created vast worlds in his imagination, naming and bringing things to life. In later years this inner world of childhood fades, but he retains the mystical vision of the poet. Bored and disappointed by his humdrum adult exi...

  • John Silence, Physician Extraordinary

    Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. The character of John Silence pioneered the "psychic detective" genre. This volume contains all six stories of John Silence and his investinations into the par...

  • Julius Levallon

  • The Wendigo

    Algernon Blackwood’s The Wendigo is a chilling ghost story about five men lost in the Canadian wilderness. While separated into two hunting parties a terror befalls one pair of the hunters. An ancient evil of the primeval woods pays a vis...



  • A Prisoner in Fairyland

    The old vicar spoke to him strangely. "We've not forgotten you as you've forgotten us," he said. "And the place, though empty now for years, has not forgotten you either, I'll be bound." Rogers brushed it off. Just silliness -- that was all it was...

  • Gothic Tales of Algernon Blackwood

    This book is the classic collection of short stories by Algernon Blackwood, including The Egyptian Hornet, The Goblin's Collection, The Attic, and several more. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometime...

  • Incredible Adventures

    Algernon Blackwood was a prolific British author best known for his ghost stories.  Blackwood’s most famous work includes The Willows and The Wendigo.  This edition of Incredible Adventures includes a table of contents....

  • Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

    One of the most famous ghost stories, Blackwood's 'The Empty House' is a classic haunted house tale of terror. Now with a new introduction and biography.Algernon Blackwood, one of the founding fathers of modern ghost and horror stories, inspired gene...

  • Sand

    As Felix Henriot came through the streets that January night the fog was stifling, but when he reached his little flat upon the top floor there came a sound of wind. Wind was stirring about the world. It blew against his windows, but at first so f...

  • Lost Valley and Other Stories

    Throughout his adult life, Blackwood was an occasional essayist for various periodicals. During his late thirties, he relocated back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was successful, writing at least ten original coll...

  • Adventures Before Thirty

    An extraordinary chapter of autobiography, which describes the author's life between his twentieth and thirtieth years. When he went to Canada at the age of twenty he had never tasted alcohol or tobacco or been inside a theatre, and had only obtained...

  • The Listener and Other Stories

    First published in 1917 by Alfred A. Knopf, this collection of Blackwood's short stories and novelettes includes some of his most loved classics, including The Willows; Max Hensig, Bacteriologist and Murderer; The Dance of Death; May Day Eve; and, of...

  • Ghost, Supernatural & Mystic Tales Vol 1

    Selected from the entire body of Algernon Blackwood's work, this collection of short stories contains his finest writing. Published in a total of five volumes, Volume 1 contains eight stories including Ancient Sorceries, Ancient Lights, The Listener,...

  • Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural

    Algernon Blackwood continues to demonstrate the power of his words as he shocks and disturbs in this collection of supernatural tales. In a world where the line between sanity and insanity becomes increasingly blurred, tales such as 'Violence' demons...



  • A Blackwood Omnibus

  • Three More John Silence Stories

    Algernon Blackwood was a prolific British author best known for his ghost stories.  Blackwood’s most famous work includes The Willows and The Wendigo.  This edition of Three More John Silence Stories includes a table of contents....

  • Algernon Blackwood

    The Library of Weird Fiction is an ongoing series that prints the best weird fiction by the best weird writers in literary history. Texts are prepared by leading authority S.T. Joshi, who has consulted manuscripts and original publications to pres...

  • A Victim of Higher Space

    Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine goo...

  • The Mystic Writings Of Algernon Blackwood - 14 Short Stories From The Pen Of England's Most Prolific Writer Of Ghost Stories

    Fourteen timeless short stories from the pen of England's most prolific writer of ghost stories, Algernon Blackwood. Including such classics of the genre as 'The Magic Mirror', 'The Empty Sleeve' and 'A Haunted Island'...

  • The Empty House

    Aunt Julia, an elderly spinster with a mania for psychical research, has the keys to the haunted house on the square. She invites her nephew to accompany her on a midnight investigation into what really happened a hundred years ago when a servant gir...

  • Complete John Silence Stories

    One of the former British writers of supernatural tales in the twentieth century, Algernon Blackwood (1869â€"1951) wrote stories in which the slow accumulation of telling details produced a foreboding atmosphere of almost unendurable tension. Blackwo...

  • Julius LeVallon // The Bright Messenger

    JULIUS LEVALLON

    When John Mason first meets Julius LeVallon at school, he feels an immediate connection. They had known each other before--not in this lifetime, but many lifetimes before. LeVallon introduces his young friend to a m...

  • Wave

    A woman and two men who have come together in a former incarnation--not altogether happily--now have a second opportunity to work out the problem of their relations. A philosophical romance....

  • The Glamour of the Snow

    He slowly turned bewildered, heavy eyes upon the desolate mountains, stared dizzily about him, tried to rise. At first his muscles would not act; a numbing, aching pain possessed him. He uttered a long, thin cry for help, and heard its faintness swal...



  • The Insanity of Jones

    Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice ...

  • The Man Who Found Out

    Mark Ebor, as Dr. Laidlaw knew him in his laboratory, was one man; but Mark Ebor, as he sometimes saw him after work was over, with rapt eyes and ecstatic face, discussing the possibilities of "union with God" and the future of the human race, was qu...

  • Ten Minute Stories/Day and Night Stories

    Ten Minute Stories / Day and Night Stories

    "The author plunges with boldness, yet with consistent invention, into the realm of the fantastic." -The Outlook

    Ten Minute Stories, originally published in 1914, and Day ...

  • The Willows and the Wendigo

    In this Edition, Larvae put together two of the best most intriguing stories of Blackwood's Weird Tales. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered The Willows to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. It is an example of early ...

  • The Willows and Other Tales of Terror

    "The most thorough, quality collection of Blackwood's weird tales since the 1970s. The illustrations are chilling, the notes illuminating, and the selection extensive..." Welcomed by many as the most skillful practitioner of the British weird tale, A...

  • Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows" and Other Tales of Terror

    This illustrated and annotated edition of Blackwood's most influential and mesmerizing weird fiction, ghost stories, and strange tales is the only one of its kind available on the market. Richly annotated, bolstered with introductory essays for each ...

  • The Dance of Death

    Algernon Blackwood, one of the greatest masters of weird fiction in literary history. There is an extraordinary unity in the work of this great author. All his books deal with the strange, supernatural, terror, macabre, other-worldly. This nice colle...

  • The Best British Short Stories of 1922

    The early twentieth century was a period of sweeping change in Western literature, culture, and art. As the conventions of the Victorian and Edwardian periods gave way to daring modernist experiments, the entire conception of what fiction was and cou...

  • Famous Modern Ghost Stories

  • Masterpieces of Mystery (Ghost Stories)



  • Masterpieces of Mystery (Mystic-Humorous Stories)

  • The Algernon Blackwood Anthology

    One of the greatest horror and fantasy writers to ever live, Algernon Blackwood! This anthology collects some of his greatest, most masterful works:The WendigoThe WillowsThe DamnedThree John Silence StoriesThe CentaurThe Man Whom the Trees LovedThe G...

  • A Prisoner of Fairyland

    Algernon Henry Blackwood was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is mor...

  • The Complete John Silence

  • Ghost, Supernatural & Mystic Tales Vol 2

    Selected from the entire body of Algernon Blackwood's work, this collection of short stories contains his finest writing. Published in a total of five volumes, Volume 2 contains eight stories including The Willows, The Wendigo, The Doll, and The Trod...

  • Ghost, Supernatural & Mystic Tales Vol 3

    Selected from the entire body of Algernon Blackwood's work, this collection of short stories contains his finest writing. Published in a total of five volumes, Volume 3 contains twelve thrilling and terrible tales, including ‘The Man The Trees Love...

  • Ghost, Supernatural & Mystic Tales Vol 4

    Selected from the entire body of Algernon Blackwood's work, this collection of short stories contains his finest writing. Published in a total of five volumes, Volume 4 contains ten thrilling tales. Walk the corridors of the ‘Empty House’ and fee...

  • Ghost, Supernatural & Mystic Tales Vol 5

    Selected from the entire body of Algernon Blackwood's work, this collection of short stories contains his finest writing. Published in a total of five volumes, Volume 5 contains seven of the best, including ‘The Dance of Death’, ‘A Psychical In...

  • The Willows, the Wendigo, and Other Horrors

    This illustrated and annotated edition of Blackwood's most influential and mesmerizing weird fiction, ghost stories, and strange tales is the only one of its kind available on the market. Richly annotated, bolstered with introductory essays for each ...

  • The Camp of the Dog

    This early work by Algernon Blackwood was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Camp of the Dog' is a short story of a group'...

  • Running Wolf

    This early work by Algernon Blackwood was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'Running Wolf' is a short story of a supernatural nati...

  • The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York

    This gothic story delves into the peculiar worlds of a butler, a reporter, and a possibly lycanthropic would-be chemist, where reality blurs with the extraordinary.Hiding in the bustling streets of New York are elusive cryptids, hidden societies, and...

  • The Sacrifice

  • Four Weird Tales: Helloween

    The first tale, The Insanity of Mr. Jones, isn't particularly weird, by which I take to mean supernatural or unearthly. The protagonist seems to be suffering paranoid schizophrenia, with tragic consequence. The insanity part of the title, a clue. It'...

  • The Face of the Earth and Other Imaginings

    A collection of supernatural stories and various essays collected by Blackwood biographer Mike Ashley, many of which have never been published in book format before. Includes a complete bibliography of the author's works....

  • Other Life

    Other Life collects thirteen tales of strange and sometimes incomprehensible life forms from alien worlds throughout (and beyond) the universe. Humanity faces the unknown, whether peaceful or deadly, and is rarely the same after. From sentient "trees...

  • A prisoner In Fairy Land

  • The Willows and Other Stories

    Algernon Blackwood was one of the first true masters of horror and weird fiction. This deluxe oversized slipcase hardcover, illuminated by illustrations from the brilliant designer and graphic storyteller Paul Pope, makes a powerful argument for his ...

  • Algernon Blackwood's The Willows

    This immortal novella of extra-dimensional weirdness on the Danube comes to vivid life in graphic comic form thanks to the incredibly detailed black-and-white linework of talented newcomer, Sam Ford. Writer Nathan Carson’s thoughtful retelling reve...

  • Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches

    TONGUES OF FIREHarold, she said in a very low voice, and as though it cost her enormous effort, it's the same with both of us. And we've brought it on ourselves. Placing a hand on his smooth thick hair, though he shrank from her touch, she continued ...

  • Nature Green in Tooth and Claw

    Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was one of the pre-eminent writers of weird fiction in the first half of the 20th century. He was unexcelled at creating an atmosphere of disquiet and dread, and in many works used nature as a kind of spectral presence ...

  • The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath

  • Werewolf Tales

    Ten gripping tales span one-hundred years' worth of werewolf legends in this new anthology.Witness the traditional lore of lycanthropy, werewolfery and shape-shifting evolve over the years, from the Victorian gothic fantasy of Erckmann-Chatrian's The...

  • The Wendigo Illustrated

  • The DOLL & THE TROD

    SOME NIGHTS are merely dark, others are dark in a suggestive way as though something ominous, mysterious, is going to happen. In certain remote outlying suburbs, at any rate, this seems true, where great spaces between the lamps go dead at night, whe...

  • Shocks

  • The Collected Algernon Blackwood: Master of Horror, Fantasy, and the Supernatural

    A master of the weird, unsettling, supernatural, and sublime, Algernon Blackwood created worlds and weird tales like no other. His works influenced generations of later writers of fantasy and weird fiction like H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, Fran...

  • The Collected Shorter Supernatural & Weird Fiction of Algernon Blackwood Volume 3

    A third impressive collection of Blackwood's outstanding shorter fictionAlgernon Henry Blackwood was one of the most prolific authors of supernatural and horror fiction in the history of the genre. In fact, his output was so great and rapidly produce...

  • The Unknown

    This new selection of Algernon Blackwood’s essays and short stories is a unique combination of supernatural writing and the author’s own reflections on the art of fiction, and the themes and impulses that created these remarkable stories. Bl...

  • The Collected Shorter Supernatural & Weird Fiction of Algernon Blackwood Volume 5

    A fifth helping of Blackwood's tales of the uncannyAlgernon Henry Blackwood was one of the most prolific authors of supernatural and horror fiction in the history of the genre. In fact, his output was so great and rapidly produced that it is possible...

  • The Collected Shorter Supernatural & Weird Fiction of Algernon Blackwood Volume 6

    A sixth impressive collection of Blackwood's outstanding shorter fictionAlgernon Henry Blackwood was one of the most prolific authors of supernatural and horror fiction in the history of the genre. In fact, his output was so great and rapidly produce...

  • Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories

    A chilling new collection of supernatural tales from the Victorian master of horror, and the subtle manipulation of dread.Algernon Blackwood, a founding father of modern ghost and horror stories, is one of the great horror writers of the late Victori...

  • The Willows and Others

    Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was England's greatest writer of weird fiction in the early twentieth century. He escaped a repressive religious education by absorbing Hindu and Buddhist texts. Venturing to Canada to look for work, he established a de...

  • The WILLOW / MALAHIDE AND FORBEN

  • The Willows + The Wendigo

    Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951) in his rich and varied lifetime was an English broadcasting narrator, Canadian farmer, New York newspaper reporter, hotel operator, journalist, bartender, secretary, mystic, teacher, adventurer, novelist, and shor...

  • Ten minute stories

    Accessory before the fact -- The deferred appointment -- The prayer -- Strange disappearance of a baronet -- The secret -- The lease -- Up and down -- Faith cure on the Channel -- The goblin's collection -- Imagination -- The invitation -- The impuls...

  • Day and Night Stories

    • / General Fiction
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    Algernon Blackwood was a prolific British author best known for his ghost stories.  Blackwood’s most famous work includes The Willows and The Wendigo.  This edition of Day and Night Stories includes a table of contents....

  • Education of Uncle Paul

    • / General Fiction
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    A novel for adults about children, exploring the wonderful land of a lost childhood. Paul returns to England after twenty years in the Canadian wilderness. He has been bereft of adult company and so emotionally feels somewhat like a little boy. Movin...

  • The Empty Sleeve

    • / Horror
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    Many of the horror stories of monsters and ghouls, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, usin...

  • Extra Day

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    Uncle Felix visits three children who live in an Old Mill House. They always enjoy his magical tales and he has a particular influence upon their lives and growing-up. He challenges the children to think laterally and to question what they see and do...

  • Four Weird Tales

    • / Horror
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    These stories first appeared in Blackwood's story collections: "The Insanity of Jones" in The Listener and Other Stories (1907); "The Man Who Found Out" in The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories (1921); "The Glamour of the Snow," and "Sand" in Pan's...

  • A Haunted Island

    • / Horror
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    This gripping tale of mystery and horror takes place on a remote Canadian island that the isolated narrator soon discovers to be alive with terror and ghostly apparitions.A solitary scholar is left on a small island in a large Canadian lake to study ...

  • Jimbo, A Fantasy

    • / Fantasy
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    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 betw...

  • Julius LeVallon: An Episode

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    A chance meeting between John Mason and Julius Le Vallon sparks a long-forgotten memory of a former life. Le Vallon reminds Mason of the Temple Days â€" a time hundreds of thousands of years ago when the two of them and a girl conducted a forbidden e...

  • Listener

    • / Literary
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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • Max Hensig

    • / Horror
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    Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and telev...

  • The Other Wing, and Keeping His Promise

    • / Horror
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    Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and telev...

  • Pan's Garden

    • / Fantasy
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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Promise Of Air

    • / General Fiction
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    A visionary, metaphysical novel about Joseph Wimble and his family. He is a placid individual upon whom little makes an impression. All changes, however, when his daughter suggests what it must be like to see things as a bird â€" the metaphor extends...

  • Short Works Of Algernon Blackwood

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  • Three John Silence Stories

    • / General Fiction
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    Algernon Blackwood was a prolific British author best known for his ghost stories.  Blackwood’s most famous work includes The Willows and The Wendigo.  This edition of Three John Silence Stories includes a table of contents....

  • Vengeance Is Mine

    • / Horror
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    Set against the terrifying and tense backdrop of the First World War, this Algernon Blackwood tale is a masterful example of weird literature and a classic short horror story.First published in 1921, this anti-war tale follows the protagonist as he l...

  • The Wolves Of God

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    This classic ghost story is set on the isolated islands of Orkney as a man runs from the horrors he encountered in the North American wilderness.Jim Peace returns to his brother, Tom, and their childhood home in the Orkneys after spending 30 years wo...

  • The Transfer

    in The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories
    • / Horror
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    Features "Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu, "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker, "Le Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Sad Story of a Vampire" by Count Stenbock, "Good Lady Ducayne" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "The Tomb of Sarah" by F.G. Loring, "For the Bl...

  • Secret Worship

    in The Evil People
    • / Horror
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    This stand-alone short story is one of Algernon Blackwood's masterful John Silence tales, exploring the strange and mysterious adventures of a psychic doctor. A silk merchant is traveling home through the perilous mountains of southern Germany when h...

  • With Intent to Steal

    in The Magicians
    • / Fantasy
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    The astonishing world of the occult revealed in twelve true tales by famous writers, all with a particular interest in the supernatural. In this volume, you will find stories and extracts which cover virtually every aspect of the occult and are tr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Algernon Blackwood has published 105 books.

Algernon Blackwood does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ten minute stories, was published in August 2024.

The first book by Algernon Blackwood, Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, was published in June 1973.

Yes. Algernon Blackwood has 1 series.
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