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Ten Minute Stories
Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1914]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. - English, Pages 300. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.} Complete Ten minute stories. 1914 Blackwood, Algernon, -.
271 pages, Hardcover
First published February 23, 1914
About the author
Algernon Blackwood
1,465 books1,259 followersAlgernon Henry Blackwood (1869–1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".
Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas." Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and, throughout his adult life, an occasional essayist for various periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was very successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels, several children's books, and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors, and many of his stories reflect this.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote of Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerful story "The Willows," which effectively describes another dimension impinging upon our own, was reckoned by Lovecraft to be not only "foremost of all" Blackwood's tales but the best "weird tale" of all time.
Among his thirty-odd books, Blackwood wrote a series of stories and short novels published as John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908), which featured a "psychic detective" who combined the skills of a Sherlock Holmes and a psychic medium. Blackwood also wrote light fantasy and juvenile books.
Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas." Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and, throughout his adult life, an occasional essayist for various periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was very successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels, several children's books, and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors, and many of his stories reflect this.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote of Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerful story "The Willows," which effectively describes another dimension impinging upon our own, was reckoned by Lovecraft to be not only "foremost of all" Blackwood's tales but the best "weird tale" of all time.
Among his thirty-odd books, Blackwood wrote a series of stories and short novels published as John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908), which featured a "psychic detective" who combined the skills of a Sherlock Holmes and a psychic medium. Blackwood also wrote light fantasy and juvenile books.
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October 1, 2025
[Wildside Press] (2024). SB. 148 Pages. Purchased from Amazon.co.uk.
As is so often the case with these shoddy POD offerings, the covers bow outwards on first reading.
Project Gutenberg permits access FOC.
On the whole, the quality of the stories is mixed. Several are limp in the extreme.
A significant number have no supernatural elements, a point which the unscrupulous publisher happily buried with their highly misleading cover blurb:
“Each tale offers a brief but unforgettable glimpse into the eerie and uncanny, leaving you eagerly turning the page in anticipation of what chilling wonders lie ahead…”
Blackwood’s fine writing shines through in places, especially in relation to the mysteries, menaces and beauty of nature. If the dross were excised - and there’s a lot of it - the remaining chapbook would run to ****+.
i. “Accessory Before the Fact” [15/20]
ii. “The Deferred Appointment” [11/20]
iii. “The Prayer” [4/20]
iv. “Strange Disappearance of a Baronet” [0/20]
v. “The Secret” [0/20]
vi. “The Lease” [0/20]
vii. “Up and Down” [0/20]
viii. “Faith Cure on the Channel” [0/20]
ix. “The Goblin’s Collection” [0/20]
x. “Imagination” [0/20]
xi. “The Invitation” [0/20]
xii. “The Impulse” [2/20]
xiii. “Her Birthday” [2/20]
xiv. “Two in One” [4/20]
xv. “Ancient Lights” [15/20]
xvi. “Dream Trespass” [15/20]
xvii. “Let Not the Sun“ [0/20]
xviii. “Entrance and Exit” [15/20]
xix. “You May Telephone from Here” [1/20]
xx. “The Whisperers” [0/20]
xxi. “Violence” [0/20]
xxii. “The House of the Past” [2/20]
xxiii. “Jimbo’s Longest Day” [13/20]
xxiv. “If the Cap Fits” [2/20]
xxv. “News v. Nourishment” [0/20]
xxvi. “Wind” [13/20]
xxvii. “Pines” [13/20]
xxviii. “The Winter Alps” [13/20]
xxix. “The Second Generation” [4/20]
As is so often the case with these shoddy POD offerings, the covers bow outwards on first reading.
Project Gutenberg permits access FOC.
On the whole, the quality of the stories is mixed. Several are limp in the extreme.
A significant number have no supernatural elements, a point which the unscrupulous publisher happily buried with their highly misleading cover blurb:
“Each tale offers a brief but unforgettable glimpse into the eerie and uncanny, leaving you eagerly turning the page in anticipation of what chilling wonders lie ahead…”
Blackwood’s fine writing shines through in places, especially in relation to the mysteries, menaces and beauty of nature. If the dross were excised - and there’s a lot of it - the remaining chapbook would run to ****+.
i. “Accessory Before the Fact” [15/20]
ii. “The Deferred Appointment” [11/20]
iii. “The Prayer” [4/20]
iv. “Strange Disappearance of a Baronet” [0/20]
v. “The Secret” [0/20]
vi. “The Lease” [0/20]
vii. “Up and Down” [0/20]
viii. “Faith Cure on the Channel” [0/20]
ix. “The Goblin’s Collection” [0/20]
x. “Imagination” [0/20]
xi. “The Invitation” [0/20]
xii. “The Impulse” [2/20]
xiii. “Her Birthday” [2/20]
xiv. “Two in One” [4/20]
xv. “Ancient Lights” [15/20]
xvi. “Dream Trespass” [15/20]
xvii. “Let Not the Sun“ [0/20]
xviii. “Entrance and Exit” [15/20]
xix. “You May Telephone from Here” [1/20]
xx. “The Whisperers” [0/20]
xxi. “Violence” [0/20]
xxii. “The House of the Past” [2/20]
xxiii. “Jimbo’s Longest Day” [13/20]
xxiv. “If the Cap Fits” [2/20]
xxv. “News v. Nourishment” [0/20]
xxvi. “Wind” [13/20]
xxvii. “Pines” [13/20]
xxviii. “The Winter Alps” [13/20]
xxix. “The Second Generation” [4/20]
February 24, 2016
Not Blackwood's best work in my opinion, but some of the short-stories were great. Worth noting is that I like his more eerie/weird stories, so those are the ones I appreciated the most in this collection. On a whole I still found this book entertaining and worthwhile. A big plus is that the short-stories actually took around 10 minutes each to read (as the title suggests), which is a pleasant format for sporadic reading.
April 5, 2015
Not one of Algernon's high points, but entertaining.
December 17, 2016
Few good. Most boring. Many, in true Blackwood style, repetitive. There were a lot of "vague friends" (his phrase) and bushy eyebrows, without any substance. At least there was brevity.
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