Sand

An occultist and unparalleled author of «scary stories» about the incomprehensible and anciently terrifying forces of Nature. A British writer, celebrated in the USA during his lifetime no less than on his native islands. An artist obsessed with «places of... power», and especially — magical Egypt. All of this — Algernon Blackwood, who dedicated dozens of novellas to the contact between modern Man and primordial Element...
This collection of the master's works includes the stories «Sand», «The Temptation of the Earth», «Sacrifice», and «Descent into Egypt».

«Mr. Blackwood's gift is undeniable: no one has ever conveyed the strangeness of ordinary things and events with such seriousness and supernatural intuition... He compels the reader to make a transition from the real world to the world of visions».
Howard Lovecraft