Algernon Blackwood 3 hr 54 min read

A Swedish lady seeks out the clairvoyant Dr. John Silence to battle an unseen psychical invasion, the first of three cases for fiction's celebrated 'psychic doctor.'

Algernon Blackwood's 1908 stories are classics of occult-detective fiction. Eerie, atmospheric, superbly told. Read it for the finest tales of John Silence, physician-investigator of the supernatural, 'A Psychical Invasion,' 'Ancient Sorceries,' and 'The Nemesis of Fire', masterworks of subtle, mounting dread from one of the great writers of the weird.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 54 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).