Step inside the empty house at midnight, candle in hand, and discover the stories that helped define the modern ghost story. This edition presents the complete, unabridged original text of Algernon Blackwood's landmark 1906 collection—ten tales of haunted rooms, restless presences, and the strange currents that run beneath ordinary life—including the celebrated title story, in which a nephew and his resolute aunt spend a night in a house where something waits. Blackwood's gift was atmosphere: dread that gathers slowly, like dusk. A new introduction and reader's notes illuminate the author's life, his mystical view of nature, and his place in the golden age of supernatural fiction, making this volume as rewarding for first-time readers as for devoted fans of the genre. The original text is reproduced in full, exactly as first published. Part of The Founding Texts Library.