Algernon Blackwood

Joachim A. Frank

Kurt Singer

In the morning the camp was astir before the sun. There had been a light fall of snow during the night and the air was sharp. Punk had done his duty betimes, for the odors of coffee and fried bacon reached every tent. All were in good spirits. "Wind's shifted!" cried Hank vigorously, watching Simpson and his guide already loading the small canoe. "It's across the lake—dead right for you fellers. And the snow'll make bully trails! If there's any moose mussing around up thar, they'll not get so much as a tail-end scent of you with the wind as it is. Good luck, Monsieur Défago!" he added, facetiously giving the name its French pronunciation for once, "bonne chance!" Défago returned the good wishes, apparently in the best of spirits, the silent mood gone. Before eight o'clock old Punk had the camp to himself, Cathcart and Hank were far along the trail that led westwards, while the canoe that carried Défago and Simpson, with silk tent and grub for two days, was already a dark speck bobbing on the bosom of the lake, going due east. The wintry sharpness of the air was tempered now by a sun that topped the wooded ridges and blazed with a luxurious warmth upon the world of lake and forest below; loons flew skimming through the sparkling spray that the wind lifted; divers shook their dripping heads to the sun and popped smartly out of sight again; and as far as eye could reach rose the leagues of endless, crowding Bush, desolate in its lonely sweep and grandeur, untrodden by foot of man, and stretching its mighty and unbroken carpet right up to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay....

The Wendigo

Contents:
7 • The Grinning Ghoul • (1936) • short story by Robert Bloch
20 • The Bradley Vampire • short story by Roger M. Thomas [as by Roger S. Thomas]
35 • Seven Seconds of Eternity • (1940) • novelette by Robert H. Leitfred
86 • The Mirror • (1950) • short story by Mildred Johnson
100 • Death's Bouquet • (1948) • short story by Peter Phillips
114 • Which's Witch • (1952) • short story by Harold Lawlor (variant of Which's Witch?)
134 • Father's Vampire • (1952) • short story by Len Moffatt and Alvin Taylor [as by Len J. Moffatt and Alvin Taylor]

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The First Target Book of Horror

Edited with an Introduction by Richard Storry. First published over 20 years ago and long out of print, this is a unique interpretation of the essence of Japanese society and individual psychology.

Mirror, Sword and Jewel

Paul Heile

Wirtschaftsdienst

First published in 1939, this volume offers some 50 classic texts from Yamato to the Momoyama period, and is fully annotated. It should be useful for students of social history as well as for those who require a guided tour through a thousand years of Japanese culture, customs and etiquette.

Kurt Singer

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