Ancient Sorceries By Algernon Blackwood

Ancient Sorceries By Algernon BlackwoodWelcome to the casebook of Dr John Silence, Physician Extraordinary. After a long and severe training five years he was gone from the face of the earth, travelling who knows where Silence returned to England as the greatest occult detective of the age. When he takes up an investigation, when he comes to the aid of some poor, frightened soul, you can be sure it will lead to the most strange and terrifying of circumstances: from pagan magic in remote

For the past year

part suspenseful action and part deep character study

'Extraordinarily daring

rarely but piercingly lucid

But all this time he struggled not to be overwhelmed by another story

Babies will learn to recognise native Irish animals with this compact book

she clings to life with fierce

and the dead are cherished

You find me on a Tuesday

Does he still hover

that he is enraptured by her beauty

200 of the author's photographs