May Day Eve (1907) is a novella that envelops you like the wispy fog of a magical spring night (dark magic, that is). Retrieved from the anthology, Masterpieces of Mystery: Mystic-Humorous Stories (1920), edited by Joseph Lewis French.
“I only know that this indescribable vast stirring of the landscape seemed to me as though the earth were unfolding immense sable wings from her sides, and lifting them for silent, gigantic strokes so that she might fly more swiftly from the sun into the night.”
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE, born 14th March of 1869 and died 10th December of 1951. He 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 critic S. T. Joshi stated, “His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer’s except Dunsany’s” and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) “may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century”.
First published 1922
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