Audiobooks by Algernon Blackwood

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Audiobook

The author once worked as a dairy farmer in Canada, but returned to his home in Kent, near London, and became a broadcaster, journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He specialized in tales of the supernatural and was described as “Unquestioned master of weird atmosphere,” as he told of incredible adventures. He often used first person narrations, as you will hear … and, very likely feel an abnormal phantom presence. Come along … If you dare!

Algernon Blackwood (Author), John Rayburn (Narrator)

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The Algernon Blackwood BBC Radio Collection: 17 Dramas and Supernatural Ghost Stories

A collection of strange and fantastical tales from Algernon Blackwood, plus bonus documentaries Described by H P Lovecraft as 'the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere', Algernon Blackwood (CBE) was the acclaimed and prolific author of numerous ghost stories and horror tales. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote 14 novels, several children's books, a number of plays, and over 200 short stories. This anthology opens with a selection of stories featuring his most influential character, occult detective Dr John Silence. The inspiration for the famous horror movie Cat People, 'Ancient Sorceries' (read by Philip Madoc), sees a timid tourist becoming enchanted by a sleepy French town whose residents have an oddly feline manner. It is followed by four chilling dramatisations starring Malcolm Hayes as Silence. In The Nemesis of Fire, the psychic doctor investigates eldritch events at an English manor house; while Secret Worship is a chilling tale of haunting and evil in a Bavarian forest. A wilderness trip turns terrifying in The Camp of the Dog, and in The Empty Sleeve, a virtuoso violinist's desire for a rare instrument has dire consequences. Next up are three gripping standalone dramas: The Decoy (starring George Baker and Susan Jameson); Keeping His Promise (starring Eric Deacon and Christopher Neame) and The Human Chord (starring Philip Skale). Also included is Violet Pearn's captivating fantasy play The Starlight Express, adapted from Blackwood's imaginative children's novel A Prisoner in Fairyland and starring Denis Dowling, Patrick Barr and Cecile Chavreau. This is followed by The Willows, read by Roger Allam: a claustrophobic tale of suspense and terror, as two companions camp on a remote island and become convinced they see a body in the water. Three eerie supernatural stories are narrated by Blackwood himself in long-lost gems from the BBC Archive. They centre around mysterious encounters with a depressed Englishwoman ('The Occupant of the Room'), a man who was frightened to death ('The Woman's Ghost Story'), and the spectral presence of a town ('The Destruction of Smith'), and are followed by a quartet of strange stories ('Algernon Blackwood Tells a Strange Story'). To conclude, two bonus documentary programmes, presented by Blackwood, delve into his life and career. The Genesis of Ideas sees him revealing the sources of his material, while the reflective On Being Eighty finds him looking back on his many years of experience and experiment. Written by Algernon Blackwood. First published 1906 ('Keeping His Promise'), 1907 ('The Willows', 'The Woman's Ghost Story'), 1908 ('Ancient Sorceries', 'The Nemesis of Fire', 'Secret Worship', 'The Camp of the Dog'), 1910 ('The Human Chord'), 1911 ('The Empty Sleeve'), 1912 ('The Destruction of Smith'), 1916 ('The Starlight Express'), 1917 ('The Occupant of the Room'), 1921 ('The Decoy'), 1948 ('A Japanese Literary Cocktail') Special thanks to Keith Wickham for sourcing audio files. Contents List Ancient Sorceries The Nemesis of Fire Secret Worship The Camp of the Dog The Empty Sleeve The Decoy Keeping His Promise The Human Chord The Starlight Express The Willows The Occupant of the Room The Woman's Ghost Story The Destruction of Smith Algernon Blackwood Tells a Strange Story The Genesis of Ideas On Being Eighty Content Note: Contains some dated references that reflect the language and attitudes of the time. © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Algernon Blackwood (Author), Algernon Blackwood, Christopher Neame, Eric Deacon, Fraser Kerr, Full Cast, Malcolm Hayes, Philip Madoc, Philip Skale, Roger Allam (Narrator)

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The Willows

'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood is a timeless masterpiece of supernatural horror that beckons listeners into the heart of an eerie and unsettling wilderness. As two friends embark on a canoe trip down the remote Danube River, they soon find themselves ensnared in an otherworldly realm, where the boundaries between reality and the unknown blur. Blackwood's vivid and atmospheric prose weaves a chilling tale of isolation, fear, and the inexorable forces of nature, all set against the backdrop of the ancient and mysterious willow trees that seem to hold the secrets of the universe. This audiobook invites you to immerse yourself in a haunting journey, as you surrender to the inexorable pull of 'The Willows,' a classic of supernatural literature that continues to captivate and terrify audiences to this day.

Algernon Blackwood (Author), R. Douglas Patten (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Los Sauces

dos viajeros dejan atrás la civilización para descubrir una realidad inquietante, oscura, siniestra, donde la naturaleza expresa su faceta más hostil. en una región perdida del Danubio, los árboles, y más precisamente los sauces, adquieren entonces la gloria de antaño. Sus siluetas retorcidas, oscuras, recortadas contra la noche, parecen moverse sigilosamente en la niebla.

Algernon Blackwood (Author), Yair Martinez Quezada (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - El Wendigo

Simpson y Défago acampan, y pronto queda claro que Défago siente, o al menos cree que siente, un olor extraño y aterrador en el viento. Esa noche, Simpson se despierta para encontrar a Défago encogido de terror por algo fuera de la tienda. Más tarde, Défago corre en la noche, obligando a Simpson a ir a buscarlo.

Algernon Blackwood (Author), Yair Martinez Quezada (Narrator)

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The Best Psychic Stories

This collection of sixteen stories contains a mixture of stories about ghosts and contacts from spirits, some by celebrated authors, together with essays on psychical research. As Joseph French notes in the preface, even for the skeptic, tales of ghostly activity retain a distinct fascination. The widespread interest in psychic phenomena in the early twentieth century proved to be a significant stimulus to literary production. CONTENTS 1) “When the World was Young” by Jack London2) “The Return” by Algernon Blackwood3) “The Second Generation” by Algernon Blackwood4) “The Clavecin-Bruges” by George Wharton Edwards5) “Ligeia” by Edgar Allan Poe6) “The Sylph and the Father” by Elsa Barker7) “A Ghost” by Lafcadio Hearn8) “The Eyes of the Panther” by Ambrose Bierce9) “Photographing Invisible Beings” by William T. Stead10) “Ghosts in Solid Form” by Gambier Bolton11) “The Phantom Armies seen in France” by Hereward Carrington12) “The Portal of the Unknown” by Andrew Jackson Davis13) “The Supernormal: Experiences” by St John D. Seymour14) “Nature-spirits, or Elementals” by Nizida15) “A Witch’s Den” by Helena Blavatsky16) “Some Remarkable Experiences of Famous Persons” by Walter F. Prince

Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Andrew Jackson Davis, Edgar Allan Poe, Elsa Barker, Gambier Bolton, George Wharton Edwards, Helena Blavatsky, Hereward Carrington, Jack London, Katherine Rickford, Lafcadio Hearn, Nizida, St. John D. Seymour, Walter F. Prince, William T. Stead (Author), Amy Soakes, John Burlinson, Martin Gooding (Narrator)

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The Wendigo

A monster lurks in the Canadian forests. If the legends are to be believed, a small band of hunters is about to meet the Wendigo. The legend of the Wendigo originates from folk stories from the Plains and Great Lakes Native Americans. The creature is a malevolent spirit, known to possess and even eat humans. Algernon Blackwood crafts this ghostly tale masterfully, filling it with atmosphere, tension, and drama.

Algernon Blackwood (Author), B.J. Harrison (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - Haunted House

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume our classic authors invite us in to share hospitality at a house most of us are ever keen to veer away from. But the invitation has been issued and it would be rude to disappoint, despite the rising fear that begins to take its chilling grip on us.01 - The Top 10 - Haunted House - An Introduction02 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe03 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe04 - They by Rudyard Kipling05 - The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft06 - The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit07 - Lost Hearts by M R James08 - The Room in the Tower by E F Benson09 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell10 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu11 - The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood12 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen

Algernon Blackwood, E F Benson, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Nesbit, Elizabeth Gaskell, H.P. Lovecraft, M R James, Marjorie Bowen, Rudyard Kipling, Sheridan Le Fanu (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Robbie Mcnab, William Dufris (Narrator)

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An Audio Bundle: Wild & Survive

. YALSA Award Winner - Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults · Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award Winner. The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood. Selections from these authors' most gripping works are delivered by equally compelling narration producing an audiobook experience ideal for people who are fascinated by the beauty, insight and danger that awaits us all in the wild! The stories in Survive are full of suffering: From the savagery of the Donner Party snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter of 1846, to the extreme hunger and brutal cold endured by Ernest Shackleton’s support team in Antarctica in 1915. Such suffering may be hard to listen to, but it engages us, offering glimpses of something essential. When the most basic needs become paramount, some people can achieve a kind of clarity. This clarity in turn can lead to acts of compassion and genuine courage!

Algernon Blackwood, Daniel Zalewski, Evelyn Waugh, H.M. Tomlinson, Herman Melville London, J. Ross Browne, Jack London, Lennard Bickel, Mark Twain, Norman Maclean, Patrick O'brian, Redmond O’hanlon, Richard Cunningham, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, Steven Callahan, Virginia Reed Murphy (Author), Albert Coia, Colleen Delany, Erik Synnestvedt, Gary Telles, Nick Sampson, Richard Rohan (Narrator)

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The Damned & Other Stories of the Macabre

“And the word that rose in my mind was not the gross description of ‘impure,’ but the more fundamental qualification—‘un-pure.’” The Damned & Other Stories of the Macabre is Skyboat Media’s second original compilation of stories by Algernon Blackwood, featuring six of his most unique and macabre stories that contemplate the true meaning of reality and nature of the making of the world. In “The Damned,” a brother and sister visit a recently widowed friend at her massive estate in the countryside, only to discover that there is something corrupted at the heart of this former estate of a dead preacher—something eerily similar to the fire and brimstone in his sermons. “A Desert Episode” sees an unlikely couple finding solace in each other against the ominous presence waiting for them in the Egyptian desert. Then in “First Hate,” a man shares a disturbing story about the early years of his engagement with his hunting party. A tenacious little boy ventures into the forbidden parts of his house looking for the mysterious figures of Sleep and the Ruler in “The Other Wing.” In “The Sacrifice,” after receiving terrible news, a man leads a last-minute mountain trekking expedition with two men he has never met before. And finally in “The Man Whom the Trees Loved,” a married couple living on the edge of a forest find themselves on different paths—called to, and warned away from, the trees—and they must decide whether to listen to those calls or to put each other above all else, above their own natures. Full Contents: Introduction by Alison Belle Bews“The Damned”“A Desert Episode”“First Hate”“The Other Wing”“The Sacrifice”“The Man Whom the Trees Loved”

Algernon Blackwood (Author), Arthur Morey, Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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The Empty House

Algernon Blackwood (Author), Malk Williams (Narrator)

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The Man Whom The Trees Loved

A tale of the New Forest in England where Mr and Mrs Bittacy settle after years abroad. A painter with a certain talent for painting trees awakens something in the old man and he takes to wandering deep in the forest. Mrs Bittacy with her strong, Christian values is appalled by the ancient woodland spirits that her husbands seems to seek out. She loves him and wants to protect him from the ancient force of the forest. But will her love and faith be enough? Algernon Blackwood was a man of many talents and is known still for his disturbing ghost and horror stories. The Man Whom The Trees Loved is one of his classics.

Algernon Blackwood (Author), Tony Walker (Narrator)

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