“In his method of touching the well-springs of fear, of pity, and of horror, Mr. Blackwood often exhibits powers which can only properly be called masterly.  In its way his work bids fair to become classical . . . an art superior to that of Bulwer-Lytton, at least as fine as Le Fanu’s, and hardly, if at all, inferior to that exhibited by the supreme living masters of the short story, Mr. Kipling and Mr. James.”—­Birmingham Daily Post.

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“These stories are literature . . . good stories, well imagined, carefully modelled, properly proportioned. . . .  ‘The Insanity of Jones’ is perhaps the most remarkable tour de force in this remarkable book. . . .  If Mr. Blackwood keeps at his present level one or two very celebrated authors will have to look to their laurels.”—­Daily Chronicle.

“Even Edgar Allan Poe never suggested more skilfully an atmosphere of horror than does Mr. Blackwood in his titular story, or again in his description of ‘The Willows.’”—­F.G.  BETTANY in the Sunday Times.

“Saying that Mr. Blackwood’s latest stories reveal strong dramatic instinct is a dull way of expressing the series of thrills which their perusal causes.  Without doubt Mr. Blackwood is designed to fill a high place as an author who is able to arouse the attention of his reader on the first page, and to hold it until the last has been turned. . . .  A distinctive genius.”—­Pall Mall Gazette.

“Full of imagination, and well told.”—­Daily News.

“Mr. Blackwood is clearly a master of the art of the genuine sensation story.”—­Liverpool Courier.

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