The Complete Supernatural Stories Quotes

“Death was behind the eyes, not in them.”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Complete Supernatural Stories

“Age entered at that door.”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Complete Supernatural Stories

“For a moment the sense of spiritual lassitude — of the emptiness of life — vanished before this picture of broken effort — of a small human force battling pluckily, yet in vain, against the impersonal and pitiless Potencies of Inanimate Nature — and he found himself again, his normal self.”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Complete Supernatural Stories

“He loved the gigantic peace the Desert gave him. The world was forgotten there; and not the world merely, but all memory of it. Everything faded out. The soul turned inwards upon itself.”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Complete Supernatural Stories

“Overhead, in a cloudless sky, that ancient Enchantress, the full moon, watched their dance across the sheeted sands, guiding them carefully while she drew them up.”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Complete Supernatural Stories

“The inn-keeper’s daughter, a little maiden with a simple country loveliness, presently entered with a foaming pewter mug,”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Complete Supernatural Stories