The Empty House

The Empty House

and Other Ghost Stories



Blackwood first emerged into supernatural fiction with The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. 


Although the term “ghost story” would literally haunt Blackwood all of his career, much of his finest supernatural work has little to do with specters and the unquiet dead. 


The Empty House is the exception that proves the rule: at this early stage of fiction writing, Blackwood was interested in standard ghost tales.