Algernon Blackwood

JULIUS LEVALLON When John Mason first meets Julius LeVallon at school, he feels an immediate connection. They had known each other before not in this lifetime, but many lifetimes before. LeVallon introduces his young friend to a much larger world, the world of feeling-with, of communing with the Forces of Nature, even directing them. As Mason is pulled into LeVallon's peculiar world, he discovers that not only had they known each other before, but they had to correct a mistake they had made with another in the days of pre-history, when they had loosed an elemental on the world. The forbidden experiment needs to be recreated to set things right. After college, Mason loses track of LeVallon. But destiny must be fulfilled, and many years later Mason is contacted by his old friend with portentous news he has found the other It is time to set things right. THE BRIGHT MESSENGER Edward Fillery and Paul Devonham have a new patient at their Spiritual Clinique, a young man raised in the Juru mountains by an eccentric mentor. He seems to be suffering from a split personality. One part of him manifests as a simple country lad by the name of Julian LeVallon, but there is another force within him that Dr. Fillery quickly names "N. H." and seeks to develop. Dr. Devonham, on the other hand, is convinced that "N. H." is the unhealthy side, that LeVallon is the true personality and must be encouraged to become the dominant one. But the young man is more than he seems, for he is not entirely human. And when "N. H." does take control, no one is prepared for the results. Everyone is changed by the bright messenger.

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A classic tale of horror set against the backdrop of a hunting trip in the Canadian wilderness. Algernon Blackwood deftly and subtly pits his human characters against the immensity of nature. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was a masterful teller of supernatural tales, and his influence can be felt in later writers ranging from H. P. Lovecraft and J. R. R. Tolkien to Stephen King.

Though originally intended as a work of juvenile fiction that was marketed to younger audiences, Algernon Blackwood's The Extra Day will enchant readers of all ages. The author has a preternatural gift for conveying the innocence and wide-eyed wonder with which children encounter the world around them, and the fable-like quality of the tale makes for an entertaining, engaging read.

THERE is something fascinating - something hopelessly mystical, romantic, and lavish - about Ancient Egypt. It has held a powerful place in our collective imagination, showing up in science fiction, fantasy, romance - and horror. Egypt's time honored association with supernatural terror isn't surprising: it fostered a religion in which the afterlife played a central role, one fascinated with revenge, curses, justice, and spirituality. And then there are the mummies: preserved corpses whose shriveled faces offer a faithful peak thousands of years into the past. Looking at them in person, it is easy to imagine their chests rising with breath, and their dry eyelids peeling back from the hollow sockets. Mummies have featured in horror fiction since 1827, appearing in works by masters like Poe, Stoker, Lovecraft, Blackwood, Benson, Sax Rohmer, and Arthur Conan Doyle. They told tales of brutal curses, powerful possessions, undying love affairs, zombie mummies, reincarnated royalty, forbidden romances, and unhealthy obsessions with antiquities. In this collection of tales, we present some of the most legendary and influential examples of Egyptian Gothic fiction, alongside some forgotten classics. There are stories of timeless love, of possession and reincarnation, of vicious curses, of humorous satire, of ghosts and demons and gods, of zombie mummies hungry for violence, of sleeping mummies dreaming of lost love, and of hair-raising adventures under the pyramids. They beckon you to leave the world of the living for the tombs of the dead, to journey to the land of the red sun and the white sands, to enter the domain of Ra and Horus, of Set and Thoth, of Osiris and Anubis, to follow the blue band of the Nile into the depths of high adventure - to come to Egypt.

JOHN SILENCE--PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY Dr. Silence is an eccentric man of science, philanthropic by nature, who specializes in cases involving psychical afflictions. An authority on the occult after years of rigorous training, John Silence is more interested in curing a home of an ancient haunting than in curing a head of the common cold. Herein are six of his most unusual cases, including the story of the man who seeks to renew childhood memories while travelling through France, but instead stumbles upon a monastery of the dead; and the island camping trip that turns into a shapeshifting nightmare. Six spellbinding tales from the grand master of supernatural fiction. THE WAVE Ever since childhood, Tom Kelverdon is haunted by a recurring dream in which a giant wave hovers over him. Strangely, he is aware in the dream that it isn't a wave of water, but something else. There is a sweet smell that accompanies this dream, and a vision of two bright blue eyes. Even as he grows older, Tom never loses this feeling of the Wave--his career as an engineer rides its own wave of success. Now in his 30s, he is reunited with Lettice, whom Tom had fallen in love with as a child, and meets up with her group in Egypt. So begins a strange journey that involves his impulsive cousin Tony--also in love with Lettice--as the three of them re-enact a doomed triangle from Egypt's dim past.

The Wendigo is a novella by Algernon Blackwood, first published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories. In the wilderness in Northwestern Ontario, two Scotsmen are on a moose-hunting trip with guides Hank Davis and the wilderness-loving French "Canuck", Joseph D fago. While their Indian cook, Punk, stays to tend the main camp, the others split up into two hunting-parties. Simpson and D fago make camp, and it soon becomes clear that D fago senses - or thinks he senses - some strange and fearful odour on the wind. That night, Simpson wakes to find D fago cowering in terror from something outside the tent. Later D fago runs off into the night, forcing Simpson to go and look for him. He follows his footprints in the snow for many miles, realising that D fago's are not the only set of tracks.