Four Weird Tales

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Four Weird Tales

by Algernon Blackwood

EN·~5 hours

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A quiet clerk named Jones spends his days in a fire‑insurance office, yet his mind roams far beyond the ledger. He is convinced that ordinary sight merely masks a deeper, ever‑shifting realm where time, space and memory dissolve into pure thought. The story follows his uneasy balance between mundane routine and the relentless pull of an unseen world that he can glimpse but never fully explain. As his inner certainty grows, the reader is drawn into a subtle, unsettling exploration of perception and the lingering echo of past lives.

The collection continues with three more uncanny sketches. One centers on a man who stumbles upon a hidden, almost tangible glamour that blurs the line between reality and illusion, while another drifts through a wintry landscape where snow seems to carry a secret weight. The final piece, “Sand,” shifts the atmosphere to a desert of strange, dream‑like visions. Together, these tales weave a quiet, eerie tapestry of the extraordinary lurking just beyond everyday awareness.

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Language

en

Duration

~5 hours (310K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2005-09-20

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood

1869–1951

A master of eerie, atmospheric fiction, these stories blend wilderness, mysticism, and the uncanny in a way that still feels fresh. His tales of ghostly presences and unseen forces helped shape modern supernatural literature.

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