PAN?S GARDEN ? Pan?s Garden is a thematic collection of stories which, in the words of the author, ?illustrates that characteristic belief, present in all my work, that there exists a definite relationship between Human Beings and Nature.? From the opening novella, ?The Man Whom the Trees Loved??in which Nature welcomes and absorbs the soul of a man?to the concluding ?The Temptations of the Clay??in which Nature rejects the spirit of the man who tries to profit from it?we are transported into a natural world where the elements hold sway. Mike Ashley, in his introduction, calls Pan?s Garden ?the definitive volume of Blackwood?s short stories. . . because it defines the true nature of Blackwood?s writing.? ? INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES ? Incredible Adventures represents what biographer Mike Ashley calls "the last outburst of his golden period" and is comprised of three novellas and two short stories.? Here, nature is a living force, truth is the only religion and the past holds sway over the present.? At times almost surreal in their intensity, these tales exert a strange power over the reader, opening ou