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    98 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1973
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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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: 98 titles



  • 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...



  • 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...








  • One of Algernon Blackwood's John Silence stories. There is something strange about the cats.......



  • 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 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...



  • 'They first became properly visible, these huge figures, just within the tops of the bushes -- immense, bronze-colored, moving, and wholly independent of the swaying of the branches. I saw them plainly and noted, now I came to examine them more calml...






  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • The sound dropped upon him out of that still, wintry sky with an effect of dismay and terror unsurpassed. The rifle fell to his feet. He stood motionless an instant, listening as it were with his whole body, then staggered back against the nearest tr...






  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Most connoisseurs of modern horror fiction rate Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) as the finest horror writer of all time. Blackwood was unsurpassed in originality, atmosphere, and characterization. His finest works still surprise and shock today's read...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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,...



  • 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...








  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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'...



  • 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...



  • 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

    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...



  • 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....



  • 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...






  • 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 ...



  • 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

    "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 ...



  • 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 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 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...









  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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'...



  • 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...



  • 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 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'...



  • 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 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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"Harold," 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 shran...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...





  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



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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....



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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 ...



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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...




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    Many of the earliest stories of witchcraft and black magic, 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 editi...



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    Renowned author Algernon Blackwood defined his own unique niche in the horror genre, exploring strange and occult themes in subtle, leisurely paced, elegantly written tales. The stories collected in The Wolves of God run the gamut in terms of subject...



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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...



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    Many of the finest stories of magic and fantasy, 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, using ...



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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 98 books.

Algernon Blackwood does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories, was published in October 2023.

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

Yes. Algernon Blackwood has 1 series.