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Four Weird Tales
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Four Weird Tales, by Algernon Blackwood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: Four Weird Tales
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Release Date: September 20, 2005 [EBook #16726]
Language: English
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FOUR WEIRD TALES
BY
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
INCLUDING:
"The Insanity of Jones" "The Man Who Found Out" "The Glamour of the Snow" and "Sand"
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
These stories first appeared in Blackwood's story collections: "The Insanity of Jones" in The Listener and Other Stories (1907); "The Man Who Found Out" in The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories (1921); "The Glamour of the Snow," and "Sand" in Pan's Garden (1912).
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The Insanity of Jones
(A Study in Reincarnation)
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.
For only to the few whose inner s