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The Damned
Algernon Blackwood
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"Fanny," I asked, more gravely than I intended, "you are not frightened, are you? Nothing has happened, has it?"
She replied with emphasis, "Of course not! How could it—I mean, why should I?" She stammered, as though the wrong sentence flustered her a second. "It's simply—that I have this ter—this dislike of sleeping alone."
Naturally, my first thought was how easy it would be to cut our visit short. But I did not say this. Had it been a true solution, Frances would have said it for me long ago.
"Wouldn't Mabel double-up with you?" I said instead, "or give you an adjoining room, so that you could leave the door between you open? There's space enough, heaven knows."
And then, as the gong sounded in the hall below for dinner, she said, as with an effort,. . . Read More
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I have found a new author to love. An excellent ghost story...more
3.5⭐
A brother and sister, Bill and Frances are invited to stay with Mrs. Franklyn, a wealthy widow friend of Frances's at her foreboding country estate called The Towers. It is soon discovered by both brother and sister that the house is intolerable to their artistic natures leaving them feeling qui
A great haunted house story along the lines of Turn of the Screw and the Haunting of Hill House. This is my first time reading Algernon Bloackwood, and I hope his other works as as subtle and well-written.
This is one of those books that gets hurt by modern horror writing. The atmosphere is creepy and there is a constant sense of dread throughout. You constantly expect something horrible to happen, and it never really does. A lot of reviewers on this site have used that as a criticism. They say nothin
This gave me the s$&ts mainly because of the perpetual rise to climax that grew on you the entire story whilst getting steadily creepier
In this episode, I review the gothic ghost story "The Damned" by Algernon Blackwood.
Also, I touch on exactly what a residual haunting is.
https://youtu.be/nN6_11kAM4k
This story held me captivate from beginning to end. The struggle of beliefs and fears seemed very real to me.