“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart. It dropped with deadly effect upon the sorest spot of all, completely unnerving him. He had… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share
Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains. — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a sheet of black glass beneath the stars. The cold air pricked. In the draughts of night that poured their silent tide from the depths of the forest, with messages from distant ridges and from lakes just beginning to… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share
“Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd. — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore were the only sounds audible. The wind had dropped with the sun, and in all that vast world of branches nothing stirred. Any moment, it seemed, the woodland gods, who are to be worshipped in silence… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share
“The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share
“The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")” — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an elusive scent, not recognized subconsciously and at once, is a very subtle operation of the mind. And he failed. It was gone before he could properly seize or name it. Approximate description, even, seems to have been difficult,… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share
