Incredible Adventures

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Algernon Blackwood. Incredible Adventures

Incredible Adventures

Table of Contents

THE REGENERATION OF LORD ERNIE

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VII

VIII

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XI

THE SACRIFICE

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III

THE DAMNED

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VII

VIII

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A DESCENT INTO EGYPT

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XIII

XIV

WAYFARERS

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Algernon Blackwood

Published by Good Press, 2019

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‘Was genuinely spiritual and followed the truth in his own way. He was not necessarily evil.’ The little Pasteur spoke with vehemence. ‘You talk like the religion-primers in the kindergarten,’ he went on. ‘Listen. This man, sick and weary of his lukewarm flock, sought vital, stalwart systems who might be clean enough to use the elemental powers he had discovered how to attract. Only the bias of the users could make it “evil” by wrong use. His idea was big and even holy—to train a corps that might regenerate the world. And he chose unreasoning, unintellectual types with a purpose—primitive, giant men who could assimilate the force without risk of being shattered. Under his direction he intended they should prove as effective as the twelve disciples of old who were fisher-folk. And, had he gone on——’

‘He, too, failed then?’ asked the other, whose tangled thoughts struggled with incredulity and belief as he heard this strange new thing. ‘He died, you mean?’

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