Algernon Henry Blackwood, a Commander of the British Empire, was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator.  Today’s story, “The Empty House,” is one of his most widely anthologized stories, famous for its suspense.  It details the circumstances of an elderly adventuress intent on investigating a house with a terrible reputation.