ANCIENT SORCERIES & THE OTHER SUPERNATURAL MYSTERIES

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Algernon Blackwood. ANCIENT SORCERIES & THE OTHER SUPERNATURAL MYSTERIES

ANCIENT SORCERIES & THE OTHER SUPERNATURAL MYSTERIES

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Table of Contents

The Willows

I

II

III

IV

The Insanity of Jones

2

3

Ancient Sorceries

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

The Man Who Found Out

1

2

3

4

5

6

The Wendigo

The Glamour of the Snow

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

The Man Whom The Trees Loved

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

Sand

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

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Algernon Blackwood

The Insanity of Jones

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"All my life," he said, "I have been strangely, vividly conscious of another region—not far removed from our own world in one sense, yet wholly different in kind—where great things go on unceasingly, where immense and terrible personalities hurry by, intent on vast purposes compared to which earthly affairs, the rise and fall of nations, the destinies of empires, the fate of armies and continents, are all as dust in the balance; vast purposes, I mean, that deal directly with the soul, and not indirectly with more expressions of the soul—"

"I suggest just now—" I began, seeking to stop him, feeling as though I was face to face with a madman. But he instantly overbore me with his torrent that had to come.

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