Review: THE FIRST ALGERNON BLACKWOOD MEGAPACK by Algernon Blackwood

Some of these are ghost stories, and some aren't, but they're all built somehow on the supernatural. They are perhaps best described as "spooky"; Blackwood was very good at creating forbidding and moody atmospheres.

Unfortunately, he was less good at pacing. There's a fine line between drawing things out to create tension and just letting them drag on too long. Too often Blackwood falls on the wrong side of that line.

It may just be the difference between readers in the 19th century and the 21st, but I found much of Blackwood's work boring. I don't recommend it.