Ten Minute Stories

Algernon Blackwood's stories turn ordinary journeys, errands, and curiosities into encounters with the uncanny. In one, Martin loses his way on a lonely moor and feels himself drawn into a hidden drama of disguise, warning, and ambush, only to be left wondering whether he has stumbled into a psychic intrusion or a secret espionage plot. In another, photographer Mr. Mortimer Jenkyn is visited by a pale stranger who seems already touched by death, and the impossible séance-like photograph leads to a revelation that the man was dead before the shutter ever clicked. Elsewhere, medical students O'Malley and Jones experiment with a dangerous Hindu recipe for psychic awareness and begin to sense invisible mental forces passing between people. A clerk taking a woodland shortcut finds the trees, voices, and shadows turning against him, while a weary traveler and his companion Ducommun discover an inn whose warmth and hospitality are shadowed by a faintly supernatural unease. Across these tales, Blackwood blends folklore, intuition, and psychological terror into eerie landscapes where thought, place, and fate seem disturbingly alive. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.