Published in 1906, Algernon Blackwood's 'The Empty House' is a masterwork of atmospheric supernatural fiction that examines how malevolent histories can permeate physical spaces. The story follows young Shorthouse and his aunt—an enthusiast of psychical research—as they spend a night in a notoriously haunted house in a provincial English square to investigate the violent murder that allegedly took place there decades earlier. Readers should expect a slow-building sense of dread punctuated by increasingly terrifying supernatural manifestations.