Day and Night Stories

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Algernon Blackwood. Day and Night Stories

Day and Night Stories

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DAY AND NIGHT STORIES

I. THE TRYST

II. THE TOUCH OF PAN

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III. THE WINGS OF HORUS

IV. INITIATION

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V. A DESERT EPISODE

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2

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VI. THE OTHER WING

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4

VII. THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM

VIII. CAIN’S ATONEMENT

IX. AN EGYPTIAN HORNET

X. BY WATER

XI. H. S. H

XII. A BIT OF WOOD

XIII. A VICTIM OF HIGHER SPACE

XIV. TRANSITION

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Algernon Blackwood

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“It is ours. Use it!” answered a deep, ringing voice. “The valleys are our own. No climbing now!” And a wind of echoing cries gave answer from all sides. “Life! Life! Life! Abundant, flowing over—use it, use it!”

A troop of nymphs rushed forth, escaped from clustering arms and lips they yet openly desired. He chased them in and out among the waving branches, while she who had brought him ever followed, and sped past him and away again. He caught three gleaming soft brown bodies, then fell beneath them, smothered, bubbling with joyous laughter—next freed himself and, while they sought to drag him captive again, escaped and raced with a leap upon a slimmer, sweeter outline that swung up—only just in time—upon a lower bough, whence she leaned down above him with hanging net of hair and merry eyes. A few feet beyond his reach, she laughed and teased him—the one who had brought him in, the one he ever sought, and who for ever sought him too. …

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