Algernon Blackwood 
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories 

Algernon Henry Blackwood  (14 March 1869 – 10 December 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’.