Algernon Blackwood ~6 hr read

Dr. John Silence, physician to the soul, takes on the cases no ordinary doctor can, a psychical invasion, ancient sorceries, a nemesis of fire, a camp haunted by a monstrous dog.

Algernon Blackwood's 1908 collection introduces one of fiction's great occult detectives across five superb supernatural cases. Atmospheric, chilling, foundational. Read it for the psychic-detective stories that helped define the genre, from a master of weird fiction.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).