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<title>Day and Night Stories</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:14:17 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>The Wendigo</title>
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<title>Three More John Silence Stories</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:59:30 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>The Willows</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:12:48 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>The Garden of Survival</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/1707060253/9481_the_garden_of_survival.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/1707060253/9481_the_garden_of_survival_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="The Garden of Survival" alt ="The Garden of Survival"/></a><br//>How is this book unique?  Font adjustments & biography included  Unabridged (100% Original content)  Formatted for e-reader  Illustrated    About The Garden of Survival by Algernon Blackwood  Twins may be similar in outward appearance and share genetic material, but the paths they take in life are often markedly divergent. That's certainly the case in Algernon Blackwood's The Garden of Survival, in which two twin brothers' adventures take them to opposite ends of the earth &#x2013; though their special bond remains intact. The Garden of Survival begins in Blackwood&#x2019;s usual polished and expressive style. His protagonist, Richard, a former military man now making a living as a foreign diplomat in Africa, details in epistolary format his musings of life and love. The story is both enticing and ethereal. The description of Richard&#x2019;s childhood garden is vaguely reminiscent of the biblical Garden of Eden. Algernon Henry Blackwood was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature, and many of his stories reflect this.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:16:46 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>The Extra Day</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:09:40 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>The Bright Messenger</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:09:32 +0300</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:13:28 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/algernon-blackwood/collected_works_of_algernon_blackwood.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/algernon-blackwood/collected_works_of_algernon_blackwood_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood" alt ="Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood"/></a><br//><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Master of the Supernatural, Algernon Blackwood was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. This comprehensive eBook presents the largest collection of Blackwood’s works ever compiled in a single edition in the US, with all but one of the novels, many short stories, numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Blackwood’s life and works</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* 13 novels, with individual contents tables</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Rare novels, like THE EDUCATION OF UNCLE PAUL, THE FRUIT STONERS and JULIUS LE VALLON appearing for the first time in digital publishing</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Excellent formatting of the texts</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Children’s works such as SAMBO AND SNITCH are fully illustrated with their original artwork</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Rare short story collections – explore the weird fiction of the master short story writer</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Easily locate the short stories you want to read</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:26:18 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Three John Silence Stories</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/1707052038/7386_three_john_silence_stories.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/1707052038/7386_three_john_silence_stories_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Three John Silence Stories" alt ="Three John Silence Stories"/></a><br//>Algernon Blackwood was a British writer who wrote all kinds of short stories, but he is best known for his prodigious output of ghost stories, and the way he modernized that subgenre of horror.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:55:46 +0300</pubDate>
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<title>The Empty House</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:45:02 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>The Algernon Blackwood Collection</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/algernon-blackwood/the_algernon_blackwood_collection.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/algernon-blackwood/the_algernon_blackwood_collection_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="The Algernon Blackwood Collection" alt ="The Algernon Blackwood Collection"/></a><br//>Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Algernon Blackwood was an English author best known for his ghost stories. Blackwood's short stories The Willows and The Wendigo were very influential in the genre. This collection includes the following:NOVELS:The CentaurJimbo: A FantasyThe Human ChordA Prisoner in FairylandThe Extra DayJulius LeVallonThe Bright MessengerThe Wave: An Egyptian AftermathThe Promise of AirThe Garden of Survival SHORT STORIES:The WillowsThe WendigoThe DamnedThe Man Whom the Trees LovedThe Insanity of JonesThe Man Who Found OutThe Glamour of SnowSandA Physical InvasionAncient SorceriesThe Nemesis of FireSecret WorshipThe Camp of the DogA Victim of Higher SpaceThe Empty HouseA Haunted...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:59:14 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>13 Tales of Terror</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/algernon-blackwood/13_tales_of_terror.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/algernon-blackwood/13_tales_of_terror_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="13 Tales of Terror" alt ="13 Tales of Terror"/></a><br//><div> <h1 align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><a name="_Toc307616582"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>ABOUT THIS EBOOK</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language: EN-US'></span></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><img width="250" height="2" src="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CJ%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image001.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025"></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US"></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; ">The stories selected for this eBook came from a variety of sources.</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in; padding:0in">All the stories were either scans of books I own or in digital format---pdf, rtf, txt and/or HTML 1.0 files. I converted, cleaned-up and re-formatted all the stories contained in this eBook to better suit an eBook reader.</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%">I “test” my final epubs on a Nook Color and an iPad2 to ensure the best possible reading experience; however, not all eReaders are the same and don’t always display epubs in the same way as others. This is especially true when it comes to the Table of Contents (ToC), images within the epub and the display of the book cover.</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%">I adhered<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>as much as possible to the original punctuation, spelling and sentence structure in each story. Many of these stories were written with a very specific structure and style that may seem odd when presented in an electronic format. I found this especially true in the way many characters’ dialogue was written.</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%">Please understand, in an effort to preserve the author’s text, some words, structures etc. may seem like errors that I missed while creating this eBook for you. No words or text of the authors’ original works were omitted or altered; each story is word-for-word as presented in the original source file.</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%">If you find errors, or run into any difficulty with this eBook please feel free to contact me through Bolt.</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%">Finally, it is my sincerest wish that you have the best possible reading experience with this eBook.</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Flyboy707</span> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">October, 2011</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><br></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><img width="250" height="2" src="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CJ%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image001.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025"></span>Algernon Henry Blackwood was born on march 14, </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">1869 and was an English short story writer and novelist. Blackwood was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Incredible Adventures</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".</span></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas". Blackwood had a varied career, working as a milk farmer in Canada, operating a hotel, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, bartender, model, journalist for the New York Times, private secretary, businessman, and violin teacher.</span></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Throughout his adult life, he was an occasional essayist for various periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was very successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels, several children's books, and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors, and many of his stories reflect this. To satisfy his interest in the supernatural, he joined the “Ghost Club”. He never married; according to his friends he was a loner but also cheerful company.</span></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Jack Sullivan points out that "Blackwood's life parallels his work more neatly than perhaps that of any other ghost story writer. Like his lonely but fundamentally optimistic protagonists, he was a combination of mystic and outdoorsman; when he wasn't steeping himself in occultism, including Rosicrucianism and Buddhism, he was likely to be skiing or mountain climbing.”</span></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">His two best known stories are probably "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". He would also often write stories for newspapers at short notice, with the result that he was unsure exactly how many short stories he had written and there is no sure total. Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Good examples are the novels </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The Centaur</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, which climaxes with a traveller's sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Julius LeVallon</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> and its sequel </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The Bright Messenger</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution in human consciousness.</span></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align:auto;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Algernon Blackwood dies on December 10, 1951. He was 82 years old.</span></span> </div>]]></description>
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