The complete online text of The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood.

During a career spanning sixty-one years, Algernon Henry Blackwood wrote more stories and novels in the realms of the psychic, mystic, and supernatural than any other contemporary. Much of his neoromantic fiction is of high quality and particularly excel...

During a sixty-one-year career Algernon Blackwood wrote more stories and novels featuring psychic, mystical, and supernatural phenomena than any other contemporary. Many of his short stories are of high quality and particularly excel at evoking atmospher...

Algernon Henry Blackwood is one of the most respected writers in the fields of fantasy and horror fiction, and Everett F. Bleiler has called him "the foremost British supernaturalist of the twentieth century." Widely admired for his many ghost stories an...

Bruce Marks recounts the trials and tribulations of touring in this installment of his autobiography, A Dancer Out Of Time. Bruce Marks was a member of American Ballet Theatre from 1961-71. In the 1960s, the company crisscrossed the U.S. by bus, heading to...

After the plate of undercooked beans and crumbly tortillas, Ryan had half an hour before his bus for Huehuetenango, so he ordered coffee. The waiter, an old man with gray hairs hanging from his nose, said he had something special and hurried into the...