The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories Author: Algernon Blackwood Release Date: December 26, 2004 [EBook #14471] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER *** Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Annika Feilbach and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD AUTHOR OF "JOHN SILENCE" "THE LOST VALLEY" ETC. LONDON EVELEIGH NASH COMPANY LIMITED 1916 First Printed 1906 Uniform Edition 1915 Reprinted 1916 CONTENTS THE EMPTY HOUSE 1 A HAUNTED ISLAND 32 A CASE OF EAVESDROPPING 63 KEEPING HIS PROMISE 91 WITH INTENT TO STEAL 119 THE WOOD OF THE DEAD 161 SMITH: AN EPISODE IN A LODGING-HOUSE 186 A SUSPICIOUS GIFT 218 THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PRIVATE SECRETARY IN 239 NEW YORK SKELETON LAKE: AN EPISODE IN CAMP 301 THE EMPTY HOUSE Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil.