The Extra Day

On a steamer bound for the Caucasus, an Irish traveler meets a giant Russian who seems to belong to the Earth's first days. A mystical novel about the living soul of the planet.

Algernon Blackwood

After a fright near an empty house, a young boy falls unconscious and his spirit wanders a strange dream world. Blackwood's first novel blends childhood terror with the uncanny.

Algernon Blackwood

A young clerk joins a retired clergyman who believes that sounding the true names of things, and of God, can reshape reality. A novel about sound as magic.

Algernon Blackwood

A tired London businessman returns to a Swiss village where children weave a web of starlight and dreams around their family. The book Uncle Paul wrote, and the basis of the play Starlight Express.

Algernon Blackwood

A lonely man back from years in the Canadian woods is drawn into the secret world of his sister's children. The gentle novel that started the Uncle Paul stories.

Algernon Blackwood