The Empty House (collection)/End Matter
John Silence
by Algernon Blackwood
"Not since the days of Poe have we read anything in his peculiar genre fit to be compared with this remarkable book.... He brings to his work an extraordinary knowledge of strange and unusual forms of spiritualistic phenomena, and steeps his pages in an atmosphere of real terror and expectancy."—Observer.
"When one says that Mr. Blackwood's work approaches genius, the phrase is used in no light connection. This very remarkable book is a considerable and lasting addition to the literature of our time."—Morning Post.
"These are the most haunting and original ghost stories since 'Uncle Silas' appeared."—Morning Leader.
"In the field which he has chosen, Mr. Blackwood stands without rival among contemporary writers."—Manchester Guardian.
"As original, as powerful, and as artistically written as that little masterpiece of Lytton's, 'The Haunters and the Haunted.' He bears favourable comparison with Le Fanu.... A volume which has an extraordinary power of fascination."—Birmingham Daily Post.
"The story is absolutely arresting in its imaginative power."—Daily Telegraph.
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The Lost Valley
by Algernon Blackwood
"In one of the stories, 'The Wendigs,' the author gives us, perhaps, one of the most successful excursions into the grimly weird; quietly but surely he makes his reader come under the influence of the eerie, until the pages are half-reluctantly turned under the spell of a fearful fascination. Mr. Blackwood writes like a real artist."—Daily Telegraph.
"The book of a remarkably gifted writer."—Daily News.
"The stories are unforgettable. Through them all, too, runs the charm of an accomplished style.... Mr. Blackwood has indeed done well."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"Whether concerned with beauty or terror, fact or fancy, there is an individuality in Mr. Blackwood's work which cannot be ignored, and there is also power which proceeds, we think, not so much from the fertility of a comprehensive imagination, but from the amazing conviction of the author's power of expression, and a literary quality rarely met with in contemporary stories of mystery and imagination."—Globe.
"In his method of touching the well-springs of fear, of pity, and of horror, Mr. Blackwood often exhibits powers which can only properly be called masterly. In its way his work bids fair to become classical... an art superior to that of Bulwer-Lytton, at least as fine as Le Fanu's, and hardly, if at all, inferior to that exhibited by the supreme living masters of the short story, Mr. Kipling and Mr. James."—Birmingham Daily Post.
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The Listener
by Algernon Blackwood
"These stories are literature . . . good stories, well imagined, carefully modelled, properly proportioned.... 'The Insanity of Jones' is perhaps the most remarkable tour de force in this remarkable book.... If Mr. Blackwood keeps at his present level one or two very celebrated authors will have to look to their laurels."—Daily Chronicle.
"Even Edgar Allan Poe never suggested more skilfully an atmosphere of horror than does Mr. Blackwood in his titular story, or again in his description of 'The Willows.'" F. G. Bettany in the Sunday Times.
"Saying that Mr. Blackwood's latest stories reveal strong dramatic instinct is a dull way of expressing the series of thrills which their perusal causes. Without doubt Mr. Blackwood is designed to fill a high place as an author who is able to arouse the attention of his reader on the first page, and to hold it until the last has been turned.... A distinctive genius."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"Full of imagination, and well told."—Daily News.
"Mr. Blackwood is clearly a master of the art of the genuine sensation story."—Liverpool Courier.
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