Algernon Blackwood ~9 hr read

A wandering 'Uncle Paul' rediscovers wonder among children and star-dust in Blackwood's mystical fantasy.

Algernon Blackwood's 1913 novel (which inspired his play 'The Starlight Express') follows a dreamy sympathizer of the imagination as he draws children into a luminous fairyland of the spirit. Blackwood, the great mystic of English weird fiction, writes here at his gentlest and most transcendental. Read it for a lyrical, spiritual fantasy of reawakened wonder from a master of the numinous.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~9 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).