In the title story a Hudson’s Bay Company man comes home to Orkney after thirty years in the Canadian wilds, uneasy about what may have followed him. The rest of this 1921 collection, written partly with Wilfred Wilson, roams from northern forests to Egypt and China, with stories of sorcery, a tarn of sacrifice, an empty sleeve and a lane that runs east and west.
Blackwood at his eeriest, for readers who like their supernatural fiction rooted in wild landscapes. Download the free EPUB.