Day and Night Stories

Name: Day and Night Stories
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Algernon Blackwood
ISBN: 9798228330313

Author: Algernon Blackwood

Narrator: Leslie Gallagher

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 12/03/2024

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

Blackwood’s writing covers many aspects of the Supernatural, including Nature Gods and Goddesses in “The Touch of Pan” and “Initiation,” psychological horror in “The Occupant of the Room” star-crossed lovers in “The Tryst” and “A Desert Episode,” and a truly wholesome story involving a young lad and his ghostly grandfather in “The Other Wing.” This collection of eerie short stories also includes “The Wings of Horus,” “Cain’s Atonement,” “An Egyptian Hornet,” “By Water,” “H.S.H.,” “A Bit of Wood,” “A Victim of Higher Space,” “Transition,” and “The Tradition.”

About Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) led a rich and varied life. Storyteller, mystic, adventurer, and radio and television personality, he is best remembered for his two superlative horror stories, “The Willows” and “The Wendigo.” But in his lifetime he wrote over 150 stories, at least a dozen novels, two plays, and quite a few children’s books as well. By the time of his death, he had become one of the greatest writers of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century.

About Leslie Gallagher

Leslie Gallagher is a Seattle, Washington–based Audiobook Narrator who especially enjoys narrating Fantasy, Gothic Horror, Sci-Fi, and anything with witches in it. When not talking to herself in her booth, she can be found knitting, doing Halloween-themed Cross Stitch, and wrangling her two cats, Jinx and Rune.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on February 09, 2016

Some of Blackwood's better, and more well-known works, in this collection. I love his blend of the real-world and the supernatural. His stories lack the more formal traditions of older ghost stories, and while almost all touch on the supernatural, very few of them strictly vilify it. These are trans......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on October 18, 2021

The first Halloween book for this year, and my first time reading Algernon Blackwood. I can't say I was bowled over at all. Some of the stories - The Other Wing, The Occupant of the Room - were decent enough. Some of them were entirely unnoteworthy though. Probably this isn't the most popular of Bla......more

Goodreads review by Nick121235 on December 19, 2021

Great, but with fifteen stories there's inevitably going to be some that are not as good as others. As always with Blackwood there are many phenomenal horror tales, but also some fantasy stories, which I'm not as big of a fan of. Still, this showcases Blackwood at his best and is a great compilation......more

Goodreads review by makken123 on March 20, 2014

Certainly not one of his best collections although, personally, I liked the pathos of A DESERT EPISODE. Anyway, as a Blackwood fan I'd recommend to a newbie that one starts with JOHN SILENCE, PAN'S GARDEN, THE LISTENER, THE LOST VALLEY, INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES, etc.--all of which are superb collection......more

Goodreads review by Gab on October 04, 2021

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was one of the all-time great supernatural writers, who sought less to horrify than to awe the reader. This volume of fifteen short stories includes "The Tryst" and "A Victim of Higher Space." All of this are very subtle, at least for today's standard, and it feels like......more