"in one of the stories, 'the wendigo,' the author gives us, perhaps, one of the most successful excursions into the grimly weird; quietly but surely he makes his reader come under the influence of the eerie, until the pages are half-reluctantly turned under the spell of a fearful fascination. mr. blackwood writes like a real artist."—daily telegraph.

"the book of a remarkably gifted writer."—daily news.

"the stories are unforgettable. through them all, too, runs the charm of an accomplished style. . . . mr. blackwood has indeed done well."—pall mall gazette.

"whether concerned with beauty or terror, fact or fancy, there is an individuality in mr. blackwood's work which cannot be ignored, and there is also power which proceeds, we think, not so much from the fertility of a comprehensive imagination, but from the amazing conviction of the author's power of expression, and a literary quality rarely met with in contemporary stories of mystery and imagination."—globe.

"in his method of touching the well-springs of fear, of pity, and of horror, mr. blackwood often exhibits powers which can only properly be called masterly. in its way his work bids fair to become classical . . . an art superior to that of bulwer-lytton, at least as fine as le fanu's, and hardly, if at all, inferior to that exhibited by the supreme living masters of the short story, mr. kipling and mr. james."—birmingham daily post.

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