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The Damned Kindle Edition

by Algernon Blackwood (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008497W6Y
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 17, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 316 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 81 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1505222109

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- #785 in Two-Hour Literature & Fiction Short Reads

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mzbeastle

I pretty much love anything by this author

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2015

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I pretty much love anything by this author. This one is the most recent I've read, and I was (as usual) very pleased with the creepy factor, the writing style, the atmosphere created...I'm ready for another one now.

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Wonderful entertaining fantasy listening 🔰😀

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2021

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Another will written British fantasy thriller adventure in the English countryside by Algemon Blackwood. A sister and bother visit a widow friend of the sisters at her estate and the fun begins. I would recommend this fantasy novel to readers of fantasy. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or 🎶 listening to books 📚 2021
You will find 100 year old British novels very different from today's novels.

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David

A different kind of ghost story

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2014

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The Damned is a short, easy read. One has to keep that in mind when progressing through the story. The prose flows smoothly and is relatively simple. Blackwood's haunted house is an interesting alternative to the traditional standard. The short length of the story does not allow the depth of development of the characters and setting that would have made this story outstanding. The insights from the main character are interesting but the other characters are rather shallow. The setting is the same as every other haunted house but could have been more. Because it is such a short story, such an easy read and is a different twist on "ghosts" I still recommend it to ghost/haunted house fans.

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Clara

Chilly atmosphere

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2016

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This is the perfect example of horror stories that I enjoy and admire.

While highly graphic, violent and gory details of blood and dismembered bodies are horrific, they do not chill me to the bones. This book, on the other hand, creates an intensely chilly atmosphere which is terrifying.

(Slight spoiler warning:)

The concept of how men's evil intent lingers on in a house, and not only magnifies over time, but struggle amongst themselves to gain control over others is new to me, but makes perfect sense.

The ending might seem a little "easy" but I am glad that the tension is resolved in this benevolent way.

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tegeus-Cromis

90% of a great story with a disapointing ending

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2011

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This is a good story and well worth reading. Blackwood's prose is enjoyable, the story itself is slow at times, but it builds to a growing sense of horror, only to fall at the end to an anti-climax. The funny thing is that the readers are warned again and again in the story to expect such an ending. You might think of this as softcore Lovecraft.

I mention such a spoiler in the review because I feel that forwarned a reader should enjoy the story much more for what it is than what it might have been.

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Laura U.

I love this author!

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2019

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There is something about the way this author writes that makes me feel like he’s writing exclusively for me. I know this sounds funny but I feel like Algernon Blackwood ‘gets me’. He writes these paragraphs/sentences where I just think, ya, I totally understand what he’s getting at. Anyway, this book really makes you think about god’s cruelty by sending people to eternal damnation.

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Beth Kristen Nehme

Watch Out What You Think

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2009

Blackwood explores the concept that the afterlife for each person is what they believe it will be. This book deals with the rising horror faced by the widow of a fanatically religious man who has twisted the christian religion to psychologically abuse and enslave his wife. Although the man has died, his belief structure lingers.

The book is not an attack on God, but it is an open attack on the ways in which religion and the concept of God is often twisted by individuals to achieve power. If you think of the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, the Nazis, Jim Jones, Charles Manson and the other modern cults, and the September 11th bombings you realize that this is a struggle happening all over the world every day.

As you read of this one women's struggle and think that it is just one of many homes in which the struggle is ongoing, one cannot help but feel the chills.

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mousewife

I didn't like it quite as well as Blackwood's other works

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2015

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This was probably more of a short story than a full length novel. I didn't like it quite as well as Blackwood's other works. It certainly wasn't in the same league as 'The Centaur', let alone 'A Prisoner of Fairyland'. However, like all of Blackwood's works, I found it worth reading. One of the reasons I didn't like it as well is because I found the main character a bit less sympathetic than Blackwood's main characters usually are. However, he and his sister were interesting. The sister was in many ways more interesting than he was. The nature of the horror and the mystery of what was going were both very interesting, as well as of a darker nature than the seductive wildness, which often beckons to Blackwood's protagonists. This wasn't seductive at all, just scary. The main character was more of an observer than in the thick of things himself.

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Scorpion de Rooftrouser

Not for everyone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2019

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This story is "supernatural" in an unusual way. It is an account a house whose long history of various religious fanatics has left an oppressive atmosphere of damnation. The lady who lives there was the wife of a very rich banker espousing the most bigoted type of Victorian revivalism. She has invited her friends (an artistic brother and sister) in the hope that they will help to overcome the dress that the place evokes though they are incapable of resisting. There are no dramatic phenomena or "purple passages" for those who want "blood and thunder" but neither has it the sheer subtle artistry of an Aickman.

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ブラックウッドならでは

Reviewed in Japan on November 18, 2003

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詳細な心理描写を重ねるブラックウッドの文体は、ややもすると冗長になりがちなのだが、本書はその「一向に先に進まない」ことが却って不安を煽り、真綿で首を締められる様な効果を発揮している作品。
　内容は、或る狂信的な信仰家が住んでいた屋敷にやって来た主人公一行の目を通して、そこに漂う得体の知れない妖気が描写されてゆくと云うもの。登場人物達には、そこで何等かの勢力が影響を及ぼしていることは判るのだが、だからと云ってどんな奇怪な事件が持ち上がるかと云うと、これが何も起こらない。決定的なことは何ひとつない儘、ひたすら無気味な雰囲気のみが延々紙面を支配してゆく。
　と云うのも、負の感情の塊である幾つもの勢力が残留思念の様な形で存在しているらしいのだが、それらが互いに拮抗し、足を引っ張りあうことにより、結果としては表面上何の波風も立たないのがある。或る意味ではアンチ超自然小説とも言えるかもしれないが、かと云って心理小説か何か別のものになってしまう訳ではない。飽く迄怪奇小説に留まる辺りが、古き良き時代を偲ばせる。
　最後に決着は一応きちんとつくのだが、終盤で明らかになる屋敷の因縁の件りはラヴクラフトやマッケンのファンには好まれるかも知れない。

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