The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

by Algernon Blackwood · language: en

THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD AUTHOR OF "JOHN SILENCE" "THE LOST VALLEY" ETC.

LONDON EVELEIGH NASH COMPANY LIMITED 1916 First Printed 1906 Uniform Edition 1915 Reprinted 1916 CONTENTS THE EMPTY HOUSE A HAUNTED ISLAND A CASE OF EAVESDROPPING KEEPING HIS PROMISE WITH INTENT TO STEAL THE WOOD OF THE DEAD SMITH: AN EPISODE IN A LODGING-HOUSE A SUSPICIOUS GIFT THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PRIVATE SECRETARY IN NEW YORK SKELETON LAKE: AN EPISODE IN CAMP THE EMPTY HOUSE Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil.

In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are evil.

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