The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

Horror fiction. A genre that does not nearly get all the credit that it deserves. A genre dominated by Stephen King and Dean Koontz. A genre that has so much to offer but much of it is marginalized by these two famous authors. Granted, King and Koontz have written some pretty frightening and powerfu......more

Me han encantado estos relatos de Algernon Blackwood. Terror no dan, pero en ciertos momentos sientes cierta inquietud. Se trata de cuentos de fantasmas muy bien escritos, en este caso traducidos por el gran Francisco Torres Oliver, bien ambientados, sin giros sorprendentes, desde la actualidad, y d......more

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 th......more

I didn't intend to read this book properly; I just wanted to sample a few stories to get a feel for the author's style, in preparation for a blog post about ghost stories I'm in the process of writing. I did, however, end up reading all ten stories, although I skimmed over a few of them a little mor......more