Literature
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The Man Who Found Out by Algernon Blackwood
(A Nightmare) 1 Professor Mark Ebor, the scientist, led a double life, and the only persons who knew it were…
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The Olive by Algernon Blackwood
The Olive first appeared in Pearson’s Magazine in 1922 and is featured as a selection in The Best British Short…
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The Return by Algernon Blackwood
The Return is from Blackwood’s collection, Pan’s Garden (1912).It was curious—that sense of dull uneasiness that came over him so…
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The Second Generation by Algernon Blackwood
Sometimes, in a moment of sharp experience, comes that vivid flash of insight that makes a platitude suddenly seem a…
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The Singular Death of Morton by Algernon Blackwood
Dusk was melting into darkness as the two men slowly made their way through the dense forest of spruce and…
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The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York by Algernon Blackwood
IIt was never quite clear to me how Jim Shorthouse managed to get his private secretaryship; but, once he got…
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The Woman’s Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood
The Woman’s Ghost Story was published in The Listener and Other Stories (1907). “Out of quite ordinary things comes this…
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The Wood of the Dead by Algernon Blackwood
One summer, in my wanderings with a knapsack, I was at luncheon in the room of a wayside inn in…
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With Intent to Steal by Algernon Blackwood
To sleep in a lonely barn when the best bedrooms in the house were at our disposal, seemed, to say…
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The Bridal March by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
The Bridal March (Brude-Slaatten) was written in Christiania in 1872. It was originally published in the second volume of the…
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