The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

The house looks exactly like its fifty neighbors—yet people who enter it leave terrified, unable to say why. Jim Shorthouse is about to discover what his Aunt Julia means by “the keys of the haunted house.”

In a seaside town, an empty house in the square has driven tenant after tenant away. One autumn night, Jim joins his formidable Aunt Julia, a student of psychical mysteries, for a visit she has arranged with the keys in her hand. A century-old murder shadows the house, but Julia’s enthusiasm and Jim’s borrowed bravado may not be enough once the door closes behind them. In this collection, Algernon Blackwood’s uncanny tales let fear gather in ordinary places, before its cause can be named. What will the house reveal to the two visitors who dare cross its threshold?

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