The Goblin’s Collection

In a vast country-house bedroom filled with old furniture, polished surfaces, and museum-like grandeur, Dutton feels himself watched by something too small to name. Then his bright little objects begin to vanish: a collar stud, nail-scissors, a silver pencil-sharpener. The Goblin’s Collection by Algernon Blackwood is a whimsical supernatural short story about hidden presences, household magic, and the uneasy charm of fairy mischief. Set inside an enormous aristocratic chamber, the story turns ordinary dressing-table objects into treasure, making the room feel alive with secret movement, moonlight, and playful theft. Readers who enjoy fairy fiction, Edwardian fantasy, gentle ghostly atmosphere, and stories where the supernatural hides inside domestic life will find this piece delicate and strange. Blackwood creates wonder through scale, silence, and suggestion, letting a grand room become the hunting ground of a tiny collector from another world.