Young Jim Shorthouse goes with his Aunt Julia, who is passionate about psychic phenomena, to a small seaside town. They are to spend the night in an empty house, where a crime was committed a century earlier. It is the first of the ten stories in this collection, which also take us to an island on a Canadian lake, a student's room in Edinburgh and deep into the forests of Quebec.
In Blackwood's stories you see almost nothing: fear comes from a noise, a silence, a presence you cannot name.
You can read each story in one sitting in the language you are learning.
