The Nemesis of Fire and Others: Collected Short Fiction of Algernon Blackwood, Volume 2 - Paperbackby Algernon Blackwood (Author), S. T. Joshi (Editor) This second volume of Algernon Blackwood's complete short stories includes the six stories he wrote about the psychic detective John Silence. Only five of them were collected in John Silence Physician Extraordinary (1908), which became a bestseller and allowed Blackwood to spend the next six years in financial security. The John Silence stories set the pattern for the psychic detective, and dozens