John Silence, Physician Extraordinary - Tapa blanda

"Whatever the background--ghostly invasion, devil-worship, a were-wolf, the depredations of an ancient Egyptian mummy--Blackwood expertly builds up an atmosphere of the otherworldly coupled with the spiritually threatening."--Mike Dirda, The New York Review of Books

"These stories are weird and thrilling, and their literary and psychological atmosphere makes that of the cleverest of ordinary detective stories appear thin."--The Saturday Review

"In The Wave, Algernon Blackwood has written a story of reincarnation in the style of which he is peculiarly and essentially the master...mystical and absorbing...quite as good as any of its predecessors."--Brooklyn Daily Eagle