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First posted in 1917 by Alfred A. Knopf, this assortment of Algernon Blackwood's brief stories includes some of his most much loved classics: "The Listener" A reclusive, impoverished copy writer is delighted to find a cheap home in an old building in the centre of London; but he soon involves realize why it's so cheap.... "Utmost Hensig: Bacteriologist and Murderer" A tabloid publication reporter is designated to protect the trial of your frightful psychotic murderer, and makes his implacable enmity. Then your murderer is set free, and the lethal cat-and-mouse game begins.... "The Willows" A set of adventurers on the canoe trip down the Danube discover, after stopping for the night on a tiny island covered with tiny willow trees, that they are trespassers at the gate of unfamiliar and hostile pushes from beyond the Earth. "The Insanity of Jones" An mild-mannered clerk in a flames insurance office becomes persuaded, through the treatment of the ghost of your deceased co-worker, that his administrator was an official of the Spanish Inquisition who tortured him to loss of life in a previous life - so he buys a gun. "The Dance of Fatality" A man, just diagnosed with a weak heart and feeling despondent about it, goes to a party, where he complies with the girl of his dreams. But is she real, or a ghost? In case she actually is a ghost, what is he? "The Old Man of Visions" The old man didn't talk much, but through him one could see beyond the veils of the materials world. But he was careful to warn: "In the event you seek to describe me to another, you must lose me beyond recall." "May Day Eve" A skeptical, materialistic physician, on the path to visit a dreamy folklore professor, strays from the road on May Day Eve and sees himself wandering helplessly into a unusual and terrifying soul world. "Miss Slumbubble - and Claustrophobia" Miss Daphne Slumbubble is on christmas when for no noticeable reason a ghostly terror creeps into her heart and soul, causing her to try to jump from a coach. But why?