They had found “it” in four feet of water not more than a couple of yards from the lee shore of the island.  And in the back of the head was a long, terrible wound which no man could possibly have inflicted upon himself.

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John Silence

by Algernon Blackwood

“Not since the days of Poe have we read anything in his peculiar genre fit to be compared with this remarkable book. . . .  He brings to his work an extraordinary knowledge of strange and unusual forms of spiritualistic phenomena, and steeps his pages in an atmosphere of real terror and expectancy.”—­Observer.

“When one says that Mr. Blackwood’s work approaches genius, the phrase is used in no light connection.  This very remarkable book is a considerable and lasting addition to the literature of our time.”—­Morning Post.

“These are the most haunting and original ghost stories since ’Uncle Silas’ appeared.”—­Morning Leader.

“In the field which he has chosen, Mr. Blackwood stands without rival among contemporary writers.”—­Manchester Guardian.

“As original, as powerful, and as artistically written as that little masterpiece of Lytton’s, ‘The Haunters and the Haunted.’  He bears favourable comparison with Le Fanu. . . .  A volume which has an extraordinary power of fascination.”—­Birmingham Daily Post.

“The story is absolutely arresting in its imaginative power.”—­Daily Telegraph.

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The Lost Valley

by Algernon Blackwood

“In one of the stories, ‘The Wendigs,’ the author gives us, perhaps, one of the most successful excursions into the grimly weird; quietly but surely he makes his reader come under the influence of the eerie, until the pages are half-reluctantly turned under the spell of a fearful fascination.  Mr. Blackwood writes like a real artist.”—­Daily Telegraph.

“The book of a remarkably gifted writer.”—­Daily News.

“The stories are unforgettable.  Through them all, too, runs the charm of an accomplished style. . . .  Mr. Blackwood has indeed done well.”—­Pall Mall Gazette.

“Whether concerned with beauty or terror, fact or fancy, there is an individuality in Mr. Blackwood’s work which cannot be ignored, and there is also power which proceeds, we think, not so much from the fertility of a comprehensive imagination, but from the amazing conviction of the author’s power of expression, and a literary quality rarely met with in contemporary stories of mystery and imagination.”—­Globe.