The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories / The Listener and Other Stories

He had always been tremblingly aware that he stood on the borderland of another region a region where time and space were merely forms of thought where ancient memories lay open to the sight and where the forces behind each human life stood plainly revealed and he could see the hidden springs at the very heart of the world.--Algernon Blackwood from The Insanity of JonesThe Empty Room and Other Ghost Stories is Algernon Blackwoods first collected work ten original stories submitted by an old friend of Blackwoods who thought so highly of them that he sent them to a new publisher by the name of Eveleigh Nash. Nash was so impressed he offered Blackwood an immediate advance and brought the stories out to the British public that same year in 1906. Filled with chilling unsettling and unnerving tales of ghostly visitations The Empty Room serves as the perfect introduction to the world of Blackwood.But it wasnt until The Listener and Other Stories his second collection was published by Nash in 1907 that the true brilliance of this master storyteller was revealed to the reading public. Here you will find the otherworldly stories for which Blackwood is best known true nightmares of supernatural fiction: The Listener Max Hensig The Insanity of Jones the poignant The Dance of Death...and of course his classic The Willows in which two men on a boat trip down the Danube discover that there are more things in Nature than Man should ever know.