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We traced the paw-marks from the mouth of his tent in a direct line across to the girl's, but nowhere else about the Camp was there a sign of the strange visitor. The deer, dog, or whatever it was that had twice favoured us with a visit in the night, had confined its attentions to these two tents. And, after all, there was really nothing out of the way about these visits of an unknown animal. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: E.P. Dutton & Company in 1918 in 292 pages; Description: This novel explores the dilemma of a freeborn spirit trapped in a human frame [Abebooks (U.S.) Website catalogue entry for this. 20th June 2003]; Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Literary; History / General; Juvenile Fiction / Horror & Ghost Stories; ... Read more

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My mind was certainly a mere field of confused, ungoverned images. No thinking was possible, for it hurt too vilely. But this one memory stood out with violence. I distinctly remember that I called to her to come, and that she had the right to come because my need was so peremptory. To the one most loved of all this life had brought me, yet to whom I had never spoken because she was in another's keeping, I called for help, and called, I verily believe, aloud. ... Read more

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"Anything might have brought down the attack, for, besides drugs, there are certain violent emotions, certain moods of the soul, certain spiritual fevers, if I may so call them, which directly open the inner being to a cognisance of this astral region I have mentioned. In your case it happened to be a peculiarly potent drug that did it. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Dr. John Silence treats call it a sicknesses of the spirit. His patients require the skills not merely of a physician, but of a spiritual detective; a Sherlock Holmes of the arcane; an M. Pirot of the outre. These are the annals of his most mind-numbing cases. Volume I: A Psychical Invasion(Jacketless library hardcover.) ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This chilling cycle book includes thirteen tales related to Ithaqua, the Wind-Walker, collected together for the first time. Ithaqua was created by August Derleth and is based upon the terrible winter spirits, or Wendigo, of Native North American mythology. Includes stories by August Derleth, Brian Lumley, Algernon Blackwood, Joseph Payne Brennan, and others. A perfect book for those cold winter nights.

This book is part of an expanding collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction and related topics. Call of Cthulhu fiction focuses on single entities, concepts, or authors significant toreaders and fans of H.P. Lovecraft. ... Read more

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Also known as the Derleth Cycle
If you are reading this right now, you owe August Derleth a debt of gratitude.That is, if you enjoy Lovecraftian fiction, it is probably due to Derleth's efforts to keep it in print and widely read.This is certainly an inestimable service and one for which I appreciate him greatly.

His writing is another matter entirely.

This collection starts off with one of the best weird stories ever, "The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood.A deadly creature in the Canadian hinterland issues a siren call, summoning those who hear it to run alongside it in the air, and in the process, stealing the hearer's humanity.This concept is brought to life by atmospheric detail and ruminations on the cowering of men's souls when confronted with the vastness of the unknowable North.This is a masterpiece, recognized even by HP Lovecraft himself.

The next three stories are Derleth's work.Perhaps something about the Wendigo legend caught his fancy - perhaps he just saw an opening to be exploited.In any case, he created a mythos deity "Ithaqua" to be part of the Lovecraft pantheon that would fulfill the duties of the wendigo spirit.His first two stories in this book are the same, "The Thing that Walked on the Wind" and "The Snow Thing".They deal with "cultus interruptus", intruding on a deity's private worship and incurring that wrath.But of course, the trespasser has enough time to write a testimony before being gathered into the great beyond.These are certainly not his worst work; "Beyond the Threshold" would give that title a run for its money.Derleth descends to a new low in pulpishness while shilling for his own publishing press - THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS is mentioned along with fan-favorite mythos tome THE NECRNOMICON as a source of forbidden knowledge.Why?Because Derleth was trying to sell his own press's copies!Well, a guy's gotta make a buck... In both this and "Dweller in the Darkness", Derleth shills his own books within the story and alternates between mythos baddies Ithaqua and Nyarlathotep as the actual source of the evil occurrences.As editor Robert Proce points out, many of Derleth's stories seem to be put together post haste as if he couldn't decide which Lovecraftian qualities to throw into the story.The collection would have been better selecting only the first Ithaqua story and just making an apology for Derleth and moving on.

That being said, the rest of the book, which builds on the foundation Derleth erected, is pretty good.Lumley has an entry "Born of the Winds", which is a rewrite of Derleth's original Ithaqua atory but with real character this time.Although the outcome was inevitable, I found the story engaging."Spawn of the North" is a wendigo story involving a mountain man and a Texan in the Yukon, executing frontier justice against a corrupt mining company and trying to escape the bounty on their heads.In "Jendick's Swamp", Ithaqua is an Indian wind god without the arctic connotations, allowing the story to be set further south.This one was entertaining if for no other reason than variety.There are a few other stories with the same idea (Ithaqua as wind god), one involving an occult society and one with WWI fighter pilots.

Excepting only Derleth, the tales in this collection are quite good, with a variety of characters, locations, and motivations (and I'll even grant that Derleth's first was seminal).Robert Price's notations were also valuable in helping to understand how Derleth wrote, which was interesting in itself.My only complaint about the volume as a whole is that Price often interjects comments about Biblical higher criticism as he does his editor's notes.Why?The connection seems torturous at best.I don't expect to hear an evaluation of the Cthulhu Mythos in a sermon and I really don't expect to read a discussion on higher criticism when reading about the Cthulhu Mythos.Sometimes these collections are better if you don't read the editor's notes first.Well, caveat emptor!

i have seen the wind, and it's cold enough for me
this book opens with blackwood's great story: the wendigo. B is the master of the setting, noone can create the background and atmosphere like him. a very well written story from Brennan here. and Meloff's story is also an interesting read. derleth is at his best here. i don''t care that much for the guy, have never considered him to be HPL's great successor or anything, but he knows how to write, and i have always considered his story about Ithaqua to be his best contribution. the rest of the stories are well written. i don't think any of chaosium's anthologies contains of so much good writing than this. but good is not great. and the rest of the stories never turns out to be really good. the suspence killed by irrelevant writing going on for too long, mostly. sad. but the book is still wort reading ... Read more

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Not on par with M.R. James, not at all
This is a fairly short book, and was the first of Blackwood's works that I have read.To be honest, not very impressed; having devoured M.R. James' collected Ghost Stories, I was looking for a suitable alternative.Sad to say, Blackwood isn't the one.Read some of Le Fanu, and found that to be a little better, but there's no beating M.R. James. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1919Original Publisher: MacmillanSubjects: Fiction / Fantasy / GeneralFiction / HorrorFiction / Short StoriesNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt:DATE ISSUED DATE DUEMAYl-'49 ANNEXAMJ. s '67... ... Read more

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The Contents of This Book
This is a faithful reprint of an important collection of short stories by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), first published in 1912.The stories are as follows, in their actual order:

The Man Whom the Trees Loved; The South Wind; The Sea Fit; The Attic; The Heath Fire; The Messenger; The Glamour of the Snow; The Return; Sand; The Transfer; Clairvoyance; The Golden Fly; Special Delivery; The Destruction of Smith; The Temptation of the Clay

Blackwood was a remarkable writer who often dealt with themes of nature, spirituality, and the supernatural.Sadly, most of his work remains out of print.This is a superb collection, written at the height of his powers.Especially to be commended here are the stories "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" and "Sand". ... Read more