Author:Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood
(1869–1951)

Algernon Blackwood

Works

Novels

• Jimbo (1909)
• The Human Chord (1910)
• The Education of Uncle Paul (1910)
• The Centaur (1911)
• A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913)
• The Extra Day (1915) IA
• Julius LeVallon (1916)
• The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath (1916) *incomplete IA
• The Garden of Survival (1918)
• The Promise of Air (1918, 1938)
• The Bright Messenger (1921)
• Sambo and Snitch (1927)
• Dudley and Gilderoy: A Nonsense (1929)
• The Fruit Stoners (1934)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029 due to Renewal R313909

Collections

The Empty House (1906)^{[vox 1]}

1. The Empty House
2. A Haunted Island
3. A Case of Eavesdropping
4. Keeping His Promise
5. With Intent to Steal
6. The Wood of the Dead
7. Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House
8. A Suspicious Gift
9. The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York
10. Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp

The Listener and Other Stories (1907)

1. The Listener
2. Max Hensig
3. The Insanity of Jones
4. The Dance of Death
5. The Old Man of Visions
6. May Day Eve
7. Miss Slumbubble—and Claustrophobia
8. The Woman's Ghost Story^{[nb 1]}

John Silence: Physician Extraordinary (1908)

1. A Psychical Invasion
2. Ancient Sorceries
3. The Nemesis of Fire
4. Secret Worship
5. The Camp of the Dog^{[vox 2]}
6. A Victim of Higher Space

Pan's Garden (1912)

A Volume of Nature Stories

1. The Man whom the Trees loved
2. The South Wind
3. The Sea Fit
4. The Attic
5. The Heath Fire
6. The Messenger
7. The Glamour of the Snow
8. The Return
9. Sand
10. The Transfer
11. Clairvoyance
12. The Golden Fly
13. Special Delivery
14. The Destruction of Smith
15. The Temptation of the Clay

Incredible Adventures (1914)

1. The Regeneration of Lord Ernie
2. The Sacrifice
3. The Damned
4. A Descent into Egypt
5. Wayfarers

Ten Minute Stories (1914)

1. Accessory Before the Fact
2. The Deferred Appointment
3. The Prayer
4. Strange Disappearance of a Baronet
5. The Secret
6. The Lease
7. Up and Down
8. Faith Cure on the Channel
9. The Goblin's Collection
10. Imagination
11. The Invitation
12. The Impulse
13. Her Birthday
14. Two in One
15. Ancient Lights
16. Dream Trespass
17. Let Not the Sun—
18. Entrance and Exit
19. You May Telephone from Here
20. The Whisperers
21. Violence
22. The House of the Past
23. Jimbo's Longest Day
24. If the Cap Fits—
25. News v. Nourishment
26. Wind
27. Pines^[1]
28. The Winter Alps^[2]
29. The Second Generation

Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural (1914)

IA

1. The Doll
2. Running Wolf
3. The Little Beggar
4. The Occupant of the Room
5. The Man Whom the Trees Loved
6. The Valley of the Beasts
7. The South Wind
8. The Man Who Was Milligan
9. The Trod
10. The Terror of the Twins
11. The Deferred Appointment
12. Accessory Before the Fact
13. The Glamour of the Snow
14. The House of the Past
15. The Decoy
16. The Tradition
17. The Touch of Pan
18. Entrance and Exit
19. The Pikestaffe Case
20. The Empty Sleeve
21. Violence
22. The Lost Valley

Day and Night Stories (1917)^{[vox 3]}

1. The Tryst
2. The Touch of Pan
3. The Wings of Horus^[3]
4. Initiation
5. A Desert Episode
6. The Other Wing
7. The Occupant Of The Room
8. Cain's Atonement
9. An Egyptian Hornet
10. By Water^{[vox 4]}
11. H. S. H.
12. A Bit Of Wood^{[vox 4]}
13. A Victim Of Higher Space
14. Transition
15. The Tradition^{[vox 4]}

The Lost Valley and Other Stories (1917)

1. The Lost Valley
2. The Wendigo (1910)
3. Old Clothes
4. Perspective (1910) ^{[nb 2]}
5. The Terror of the Twins
6. The Man from the 'Gods'
7. The Man Who Played upon the Leaf
8. The Price of Wiggins's Orgy
9. Carlton's Drive
10. The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute

The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories (1921)^{[nb 3]}

1. The Wolves of God
2. Chinese Magic
3. Running Wolf
4. First Hate
5. The Tarn of Sacrifice
6. The Valley of the Beasts
7. The Call
8. Egyptian Sorcery
9. The Decoy
10. The Man Who Found Out
11. The Empty Sleeve
12. Wireless Confusion
13. Confession
14. The Lane That Ran East and West
15. "Vengeance is Mine"

Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches (1924)

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1. Tongues of Fire^[4]
2. The Little Beggar (1914)
3. Malahide and Forden
4. Playing Catch
5. The Pikestaffe Case
6. Alexander Alexander
7. Lost in the Alps^{[nb 4][5]}
8. The Olive (1922)
9. A Continuous Performance
10. The World-Dream of McAllister
11. The Other Woman (Blackwood)
12. Picking Fir-Cones^[6]
13. The Open Window
14. Petershin and Mr. Snide
15. The Man Who Was Milligan
16. The Falling Glass
17. The Spell of Egypt
18. A Man of Earth
19. The Laughter of Courage
20. S. O. S.^[7]
21. Nephele

The Willows & Other Queer Tales (1925)

1. The Willows (1907)^{[vox 5]}
2. Ancient Sorceries
3. The Return
4. Running Wolf
5. The Man Whom the Trees Loved
6. The Man Who Played upon the Leaf
7. The Tryst
8. By Water
9. The Occupant of the Room
10. The Decoy
11. Dream Trespass

The Dance of Death, and Other Tales (1927)

1. The Dance of Death
2. A Psychical Invasion
3. The Old Man of Visions
4. The South Wind
5. The Touch of Pan
6. The Valley of the Beasts

Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales (1927)

1. Ancient Sorceries
2. The Willows (1907)^{[vox 5]}
3. The Return
4. Running Wolf
5. The Man Whom the Trees Loved
6. The Man Who Played upon the Leaf

Algernon Blackwood - Short Stories of Today & Yesterday (1930)

1. The Regeneration of Lord Ernie
2. The Sacrifice
3. Chinese Magic
4. The Land of Green Ginger
5. The Stranger
6. First Hate
7. The Olive
8. Two in One
9. Dream Trespass
10. Cain's Atonement

Strange Stories (1930)

1. The Man Whom the Trees Loved
2. The Sea Fit
3. The Glamour of the Snow
4. The Tryst
5. Transition
6. The Occupant of the Room
7. The Wings of Horus
8. By Water
9. Malahide and Forden
10. Alexander Alexander
11. The Man Who Was Milligan
12. The Little Beggar
13. The Pikestaffe Case
14. Accessory Before the Fact
15. The Deferred Appointment
16. Ancient Lights
17. You May Telephone from Here
18. The Goblin's Collection
19. Running Wolf
20. The Valley of the Beasts
21. The Decoy
22. Confession
23. A Descent into Egypt|
24. The Damned
25. The Willows (1907)^{[vox 5]}
26. Ancient Sorceries

Shocks (1935)

Copyrighted in the United States until 2030 due to Renewal R343811

1. Elsewhere and Otherwise
2. The Stranger
3. Full Circle^[8]
4. Dr. Feldman
5. A Threefold Cord
6. Chemical
7. Shocks
8. The Survivors
9. The Adventure of Tornado Smith
10. Hands of Death^[9]
11. The Land of Green Ginger
12. The Colonel’s Ring
13. Revenge
14. The Man who Lived Backwards
15. Adventures of Miss de Fontenoy

The Doll and One Other (1946)

1. The Doll (1914)
2. The Trod (1914)

Uncollected Works

• A Mysterious House^[10]
• Summering in Canadian Backwoods^[11]
• A Spiritualist Camp in New England
• Down the Danube in a Canadian Canoe^[12]
• Testing His Courage - The Story of a Quaint Device^[13]
• The Singular Death of Morton (1910)
• The Lock of Grey Hair^[14]
• Sleep and How to Do Without It^[15]
• The Snake^[16]
• The Permanent Reality^[17]
• The Soul of Galahad^[18]
• Imagination Wakes^{[19][nb 5]}
• Onanonanon^[20]
• Explorers’ Ghost Stories^[21]
• Tobys Birthday Presents^[22]
• Traveling Light^[23]
• The Kingdom of the Heavens^[24]
• The Water Performance^[25]
• By Underground (1928)
• Dr. Feldman (1928)^[26]
• When Nick Dressed Up (1928)^[27]
• Dreams and Fairies (1929)^[28]
• The Italian Conjurer (1939)^[29]
• Spread of the National Anthem^[30]
• Think Victory^[31]

Australian Newspapers

• The Farmhouse on the Hill^[32]
• The Story Mr. Popkiss Told^[33]
• The Boy Messenger, A Christmas Phantasy^[34]
• The Face of the Earth^[35]
• In a Strange Land^[36]
• Railway Traveling in the Caucasus^[37]
• The Messenger Came at Midnight^[38][39]
• Value. In Life and Death. Changed Views.^[40]

Boy’s Own Paper

• In Hungary with Tent and Canoe^[41]
• The Last Egg in the Nest^[42]
• At School in the Black Forest^[43]
• How Garnier Broke the Log-Jam^[44]
• About Moose and Moose-Hunting^[45]
• A Holiday Down the Danube with Punt and Tent^[46]
• My Adventure with a Lion^[47]
• The Vanishing Redskins^[48]
• Our Adventure with the Danube River-Police^[49]

The Century Magazine

• S. O. S.^[50]
• Confession^[51]

Country Life

• Clouds and Mountains^[52]
• From the Swiss Lakes^[53]
• Monsieur Joseph of the Ski^[54]
• On Wings^[55]
• Spring and the Mountaineer^[56]
• Discovering Russia on Foot^[57]
• Algonquin Songs and Legends^[58]
• A Voice in the Wilderness^[59]
• Animal Life in the Egyptian Desert^[60]
• Failure of the Swiss Winter Season^[61]
• The Egyptian Desert from Helouan^[62]
• The Unconquerable Charm of Sussex^[63]
• An Arab Pilgrimage^[64]
• Arolla and Its Climbs^[65]
• Before the Season^[66]
• Egypt: An Impression^[67]
• A Barmecide Feast^[68]
• Learning to Ski^[69]
• Mrs. Gurney’s Poems^[70]
• The Israelites Track from the Red Sea to Mount Sinai^[71]
• The Kiss of a Psychologist^[72]
• Winter Sports in Switzerland^[73]
• With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem^[74]
• The Falling Glass^[75]
• The Night-Wind^[76]
• The “Country Life” Anthology of Verse^[77]
• Switzerland in War-Time^[78]
• Switzerland: Present Conditions and Future Prospects^[79]

Land & Water Magazine

• The Soldier's Visitor^[80]
• The Memory of Beauty^[81]

Methodist Magazine

• Christmas in England^[82]
• About the Moravians^[83]
• Memories of the Black Forest^[84]
• In the Jura-Neuchatel^[85]

Pall Mall Magazine

• The Story of Karl Ott^[86]
• The Kit-Bag^[87]
• The Glamour of the Snow^[88]
• The Strange Experience of the Rev. Phillip Ambleside"^{[89][nb 2]}

The Quest Journal

• The Daisy World ^[90]
• The Miracle^[91]
• The Exiled Gods^[92]

Drama

• Karma: A Reincarnation Play (1918)^{[nb 6]} index
• Through the Crack (1920)^{[nb 6][nb 7]}
• White Magic (1921)^{[nb 8]}
• The Halfway House (1921)^{[nb 9]}
• The Crossing (1927)^{[nb 8]}
• Max Hensig (1929)^{[nb 10][nb 11]}

Verse

• To the Children^[93]
• The Blue-Eyes Fairy^[93]
• My Old Tunes^[93]
• Engine^[94]
• The Star^[95]
• Questions and Answers^[96]
• If I Were You^[97]
• Jack of the Inkpot^[98]

Biography

• Episodes Before Thirty (1923)

Notes

1. Alternate Title: "The Specter that Asked for a Kiss"
2. "Perspective" (1917) is an edited version of "The Strange Experience of the Rev. Phillip Ambleside" (1910).
3. w/Wilfred Wilson
4. Alternate Title: "Lost!"
5. "Imagination Wakes" appears both as Ch7 of The Extra Day (1915) and as an article (1916) with an accompanying short biography, which is not reproduced here.
6. w/Violet Pearn
7. Based on The Education of Uncle Paul and The Extra Day.
8. w/Bertram Forsyth
9. w/Elaine Ainley
10. w/Frederick Kinsey Peile
11. Based on "Max Hensig—Bacteriologist and Murderer"

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Works at LibriVox

1. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
2. The Camp of the Dog
3. Day and Night Stories
4. Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053
5. The Willows