Review: Quite Chilling
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 20, 2013
Have you seen a photo of Algernon Blackwood? He looks like the quintessential suspense and ghost story writer. He had an amazing career and was prolific. It has been said he was often paid by the word and that draws a comparison for me to Stephen King. This collection published in 1916 is great fun and in several instances quite chilling. The Empty House is both familiar and unique. He makes its emptiness a creepy character and curiously labels the malevolence "IT".In a few of the tales his recurring character Shorthouse appears. The BBC should do up a series on him getting into paranormal shenanigans. The most interesting ones were those influenced by the author's hunting trips in Quebec. As a resident of Mont Tremblant I can imagine the scenes of nature he pens with ease. I have downloaded more of his work because it is free (I am a frugal Winnipeg boy) and because it entertains.