The Bright Messenger is a horror/fantastic novel by Algernon Blackwood. Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Good examples are the novels The Centaur, which climaxes with a traveler's sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and The Bright Messenger, which deals with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution of human consciousness...