Algernon Blackwood 3 hr 8 min read

Stunned by a fall and hovering on the edge of unconsciousness, a small boy named Jimbo is drawn into the spell of an empty house, and a shadowy prison from which he must learn to fly free.

Algernon Blackwood's 1909 fantasy is a haunting, dreamlike tale of a child's imagination, terror, and release. Lyrical, strange, deeply felt. Read it for a beautiful and eerie fantasy of childhood, fear, and the flight of the soul, from a master of the numinous.

In its time

Published in 1930, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

3 hr 8 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).