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Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. Is two best known stories are "The Willows" and "The Wendigo." Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. A good example are the novels Julius LeVallon and its sequel The Bright Messenger, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a mystical evolution in human consciousness.

Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. His two best known stories are "The Willows" and "The Wendigo." Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe.

British writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) wrote an immense quantity of weird fiction, short and long, over a career that spanned five decades Beginning with such early triumphs as The Willows (which H Lovecraft regarded as the greatest weird tale in all literature) and The Listener, Blackwood went on to write many distinctive stories that reflected his wide-ranging travels in the Swiss Alps ( The Glamour of the Snow ), Canada ( The Wendigo ), and Egypt ( Sand, A Descent into Egypt ).

E also created the psychic detective John Silence Blackwood's work is united by a deep belief in pantheism and reincarnation, and his tales are characterized by a profound understanding of the psychological effects of terror and wonder upon the receptive individual his volume presents a wide array of Blackwood's weird tales, including a number of his substantial novellas, a form in which he excelled.

The most accurate and authoritative texts are used, and the volume concludes with a bibliography of first apparances of all the items included he volume is edited by S oshi, a leading authority on weird fiction Joshi is the author of The Weird Tale (1990),The Modern Weird Tale (2001), and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012), and he has prepared editions of the work of H. P ovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, and many other weird writers.

Edition Details

• Limited to 500 copies.
• Introduction by S. T. Joshi.
• Massive, 800-page, low-cost edition of Blackwood’s best stories.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full black cloth binding.
• Embossed Algernon Blackwood signature on front board.
• Gorgeous dustjacket.
• Photographs of Algernon Blackwood.

External Links

• Library of Weird Fiction: Algernon Blackwood. Centipede Press page for Library of Weird Fiction: Algernon Blackwood
• Algernon Blackwood (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Algernon Blackwood