''Incredible Adventures'' is a collection by

Algernon Blackwood Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary cri ...

, comprising three novellas and two short stories. It was originally published by Macmillan in 1914 and reprinted in 2004 by

Hippocampus Press Hippocampus Press is an American publisher that specializes in, "the works of H. P. Lovecraft and his literary circle." Founded in 1999, and based in New York City, Hippocampus is operated by founder Derrick Hussey. As of 2017, it has issued ...

. H. P. Lovecraft wrote that:

In the volume titled ''Incredible Adventures'' occur some of the finest tales which the author has yet produced, leading the fancy to wild rites on nocturnal hills, to secret and terrible aspects lurking behind stolid scenes, and to unimaginable vaults of mystery below the sands and pyramids of Egypt; all with a serious finesse and delicacy that convince where a cruder or lighter treatment would merely amuse. Some of these accounts are hardly stories at all, but rather studies in elusive impressions and half-remembered snatches of dream. Plot is everywhere negligible, and atmosphere reigns untrammelled.

S. T. Joshi has acclaimed ''Incredible Adventures'' as possibly "the premier weird collection of this or any other century".S. T. Joshi, ''The Weird Tale'' (University of Texas Press, 1990), p.131. The book contains the following stories, all novella-length except for "The Sacrifice" and "Wayfarers": * ''The Regeneration of Lord Ernie'' * "The Sacrifice" * ''The Damned'' * ''A Descent into Egypt'' * "Wayfarers"

References

1914 short story collections Fantasy short story collections Works by Algernon Blackwood British short story collections

External links

''Incredible Adventures'' full text at Project Gutenberg
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