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Ancient Sorceries and Other Stories

by Algernon Blackwood

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Dr John Silence, Algernon Blackwood's psychic detective, confronts strange and frightening extrasensory phenomena. His cases here include the nocturnal cat-people of a French village and a tale of Egyptian reincarnation. The settings range from the vast wilderness of the mountains to the Canadian backwoods, and in each story fear and tension mount. These are finely-wrought tales of horror from the master of the supernatural.… (more)
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This is NOT a multi-author collection called Abgrunde, or anything else!!

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There are at least four different Blackwood collections (two of them Penguins) entitled "Ancient Sorceries and...", all with different contents:

9 stories: isbn 0142180157 Ancient Sorceries & other Weird Stories ed S. T. Joshi - Penguin 2002. Contains Smith: An episode in a Lodging-House/The Willows/The Insanity of Jones/Ancient Sorceries/The Man Who Found Out/The Wendigo/The Glamour of the Snow/The Man Whom the Tress Loved/Sand
Also isbn 142093368X published by "Author House" seems to be a pirate edition of the Joshi collection, with the same 9 stories
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6 stories (Empty House & 5 others) isbn 0140029044 Ancient Sorceries & other Stories - Penguin 1974. The Empty House; A Haunted Island; Keeping His Promise; A Case of Eavesdropping; The Nemesis of Fire
Also isbn 0755107888 AS & other Stories - House of Stratus 2001 (same as 1974 Penguin) - Empty House; Haunted Island; Keeping the Promise; Case of Eavesdropping; Ancient Sorceries; Nemesis of Fire
Also isbn 174121128X AS & other Stories - Redwood 2004 (probaby the same as Penguin 1974 and House of Stratus 2001)
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7 stories (The Wendigo & 6 others) isbn 1907429859 Ancient Sorceries & other Chilling Tales - Capuchin Classics, 2013: The Willows, Ancient Sorceries, The Wendigo, {four others}
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Original edition, 6 stories (The Willows & 5 others) Ancient Sorceries & other Tales - Collins, 1927 - Ancient Sorceries; The Willows; The Return; Running Wolf; The Man Whom the Trees Loved; The Man who Played Upon the Leaf.
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Dr John Silence, Algernon Blackwood's psychic detective, confronts strange and frightening extrasensory phenomena. His cases here include the nocturnal cat-people of a French village and a tale of Egyptian reincarnation. The settings range from the vast wilderness of the mountains to the Canadian backwoods, and in each story fear and tension mount. These are finely-wrought tales of horror from the master of the supernatural.

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