The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

by Algernon Blackwood, 1stworld Library (Editor)

Overview

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 comp

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421838212
Publisher:	1st World Library
Publication date:	04/15/2007
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 - 10 December 1951) 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 more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century"