Volume 2 contains eight stories including The Willows, The Wendigo, The Doll, and The Trod. Blackwood’s ability to create and sustain an atmosphere of unrelieved horror is witnessed in ‘The Willows’, a starkly terrifying tale of another dimension impinging on our own.

Volume 5 contains seven of the best, including ‘The Dance of Death’, ‘A Psychical Invasion’, and ‘The Nemesis of Fire’. In ‘The Dance of Death’ we have a fleeting glimpse into another world, tantalisingly only half explained. Each disturbing tale is stamped with the unmistakable hallmark of Blackwood’s style.

Volume 3 contains twelve thrilling and terrible tales, including ‘The Man The Trees Loved’, ‘The Pikestaffs Case’, and ‘The Decoy’. Mysticism and cosmic experiences feature, as well as the more traditional elements of the horror story.

Volume 1 contains eight stories including Ancient Sorceries, Ancient Lights, The Listener, and Max Hensig. In ‘Ancient Sorceries’, Dr John Silence’s singular psychic acuteness confronts strange and extrasensory phenomena. In contrast, 'The Other Wing', is a chilling but delicate evocation of the mysteries of childhood.

Volume 4 contains ten thrilling tales. Walk the corridors of the ‘Empty House’ and feel the goose bumps rise. Explore the ‘Haunted Island’ and the ‘Wood of the Dead’, but remember to look over your shoulder. Mysticism and cosmic experiences feature, as well as the more traditional elements of the horror story.

As a boy, Robert created vast worlds in his imagination. In later years he retains the mystical vision of the poet. Bored and disappointed by a humdrum existence, he travels to assist Philip Skale in his enigmatic ‘experiments in sound’. Caught up in a mystical adventure he feels in touch with the greater elemental scheme of the universe.

A chance meeting sparks a forgotten memory of a former life. Le Vallon reminds Mason of a time hundreds of thousands of years ago when they conducted an experiment which went disastrously wrong. The experiment unleashed the elemental powers of Wind and Fire, and Le Vallon now faces the ultimate challenge.

A visionary, metaphysical novel about Joseph Wimble and his family. He is a placid individual upon whom little makes an impression. All changes, however, when his daughter suggests what it must be like to see things as a bird – the metaphor extends to the emotional ups and downs of him and his wife, and to a new view of the world around him.

A novel for adults about children, exploring a lost childhood. Paul moves in with his widowed sister and her three children. Their many adventures take them and Paul to another realm, ‘The Land Beyond The Crack’, where all lost and disregarded things can be found. Paul comes to truly understand himself, and what really matters in life.

The Centaur centres on Terence O’Malley, a journalist of mystical temperament who is at odds with the pace and materialism of the modern world, and instead countenances a sense of kinship with the universe. This mystical novel weaves a fascinating tale while, at the same time, making a passionate plea for a lifestyle that is closer to nature.