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Day and Night Stories

Algernon Blackwood

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Fifteen short stories by Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE, 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…" - Summary by wikipedia

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .g, as of deep water falling, as of a cornfield swaying to the wind, yet gentle as of a harebell[33] shedding its burden of dew that it has held too long because of love. He passed among them, touching every head. The great hand swept with tenderness each face, lingered a moment on each beating heart. There was sweetness, peace, and loveliness; but above all, there was—life. He sanctioned every natural joy in them and blessed each passion with his power of creation. ... Yet each one saw him differently: some as a wife or maiden desired with fire, some as a youth or stalwart husband, others as a figure veiled with stars or cloaked in luminous mist, hardly attainable; others, again—the fewest these, not more than two or three—as that mysterious wonder which tempts the heart away from known familiar sweetness into a wilderness of undecipherable magic without flesh and blood. ...

To two, in particular, He came so near that they could feel. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Certainly not one of his best collections although, personally, I liked the pathos of A DESERT EPISODE. Anyway, as a Blackwood fan I'd recommend to a newbie that one starts with JOHN SILENCE, PAN'S GARDEN, THE LISTENER, THE LOST VALLEY, INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES, etc.--all of which are superb collection

The first Halloween book for this year, and my first time reading Algernon Blackwood. I can't say I was bowled over at all. Some of the stories - The Other Wing, The Occupant of the Room - were decent enough. Some of them were entirely unnoteworthy though. Probably this isn't the most popular of Bla

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was one of the all-time great supernatural writers, who sought less to horrify than to awe the reader. This volume of fifteen short stories includes "The Tryst" and "A Victim of Higher Space."
All of this are very subtle, at least for today's standard, and it feels like

Great, but with fifteen stories there's inevitably going to be some that are not as good as others. As always with Blackwood there are many phenomenal horror tales, but also some fantasy stories, which I'm not as big of a fan of. Still, this showcases Blackwood at his best and is a great compilation

Some of Blackwood's better, and more well-known works, in this collection. I love his blend of the real-world and the supernatural. His stories lack the more formal traditions of older ghost stories, and while almost all touch on the supernatural, very few of them strictly vilify it. These are trans

A good book and good read. Certainly would have been much better. This is my first read of Algernon Blackwood. As I have read and understood the writings are more on the subject of supernatural and the effects on mind and human psychology to some extent. Taking this as granted and as i have heard a

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