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Four Weird Tales
Algernon Blackwood
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Four stories: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand. Tales by one the greatest practitioners of supernatural literature. Reincarnation, the Occult, and mystery.
Four stories: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand. Tales by one the greatest practitioners of supernatural literature. Reincarnation, the Occult, and mystery.
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Dr. Laidlaw sat speechless. These outbursts of mystical enthusiasm he had witnessed before. With any other man he would not have listened to a single sentence, but to Professor Ebor, man of knowledge and profound investigator, he listened with respect, because he regarded this condition as temporary and pathological, and in some sense a reaction from the intense strain of the prolonged mental concentration of many days.
He smiled, with something between sympathy and resignation as he met the other's rapt gaze.
"But you have said, sir, at other times, that you consider the ultimate secrets to be screened from all possible—"
"The ultimate secrets, yes," came the unperturbed reply; "but that there lies buried somewhere an indestructible record of the secret meaning of life, originally known to men in the days of their pristine innocence, I am convinced. And, by this stra. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Such efforts have been put in the first three of the stories to pull us into their substance(at some times only). But SAND that is the largest, driest and overwritten of all neutralizes the other three stories by making the book dull as a whole.
And I had to try my hard best to complete it.
THE INSAN
2,5 ⭐
Unfortunately it is not one of Algernon's best works.
I liked the first two stories and I believe that the fourth one, Sand , is long and dragging and therefore the reader / listener gets bored.
Classic horror (and by classic I mean old, which oddly enough seems to be the main criteria for such things) for the most part fails to wow me. This book was no exception. I've read Wendigo by Blackwood before, so I had a fairly decent idea of what to expect (mainly exhaustive abundantly verbose des