Title The Empty House and Other Stories Series --- Author Algernon Blackwood Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing 1916 Category Anthology Warnings None Main Characters See below Main Elements See below

• "The Empty House"
• "A Haunted Island"
• "A Case of Eavesdropping"
• "Keeping His Promise"
• "With Intent to Steal"
• "The Wood of the Dead"
• "Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House"
• "A Suspicious Gift"
• "The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York"
• "Skeletion Lake: An Episode in Camp"

So continuing to read Algernon Blackwood works I gave this collection of ghost stories a try. None of them were terribly scary but several were quite interesting such as "Keeping His Promise". Otherwise are not even supernatural, such as "A Suspicious Gift" but was still an interesting twist at the end. Overall I don't have too much to say about this collection, nothing great, nothing terrible, but if you are into older ghost tales this might appeal to you.

Keep in mind that the character Jim Shorthouse appears in several stories, but it appears that it was just a name that Blackwood liked, and that in fact it was a different character each time.