"Here on the table is a book of such a sort as does from time to time appear, making, one supposes, no particular pretence to fame, and yet exceedingly well done, because it is instinct with this national power, and everyone who has a shelf for the horrible in his library will welcome it and give it its place."
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Hilaire Belloc, reviewing Algernon Blackwood's The Empty House in The Morning Post. Quoted in Mike Ashley, Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life. Carroll and Graf, 2001.
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Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Henry Blackwood (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English writer, one of the most influential weird fiction and ghost story authors in the history of these genres.
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