The Human Chord

Author(s): Algernon Blackwood

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Fantasy Fiction

Narrators: Katina Papadakis, Andrew Gaunce, Gary J. Conover, Guomin Do, NoelVox, Anautumnous, Novella Serena, DH2003, Jamison Kester, EJ How

Number of Chapters: 16

Length: 06 hours and 38 minutes

Language: English

The following sets the tone for this work of weird fiction:
"Numbers of strange people advertised in the newspapers, he knew, just as numbers of strange people wrote letters to them; and Spinny—so he was called by those who loved him—was a diligent student of the columns known as "Agony" and "Help wanted." Whereupon it came about that he was aged twenty-eight, and out of a job, when the threads of the following occurrence wove into the pattern of his life, and "led to something" of a kind that may well be cause for question and amazement.
The advertisement that formed the bait read as follows:—
"WANTED, by Retired Clergyman, Secretarial Assistant with courage and imagination. Tenor voice and some knowledge of Hebrew essential; single; unworldly. Apply Philip Skale,"—and the address."
- Summary by Algernon Blackwood