Algernon Blackwood Books In Order

John Silence: Psychical Investigator Books In Order

  1. John Silence (1908)
  2. A Psychical Invasion (1908)
  3. Ancient Sorceries (1927)
  4. The Complete John Silence Stories (1993)

Novels

  1. The Education of Uncle Paul (1909)
  2. Jimbo (1909)
  3. The Human Chord (1910)
  4. The Centaur (1911)
  5. The Man Whom the Trees Loved (1912)
  6. A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913)
  7. The Extra Day (1915)
  8. Julius Levallon (1916)
  9. The Wave (1916)
  10. The Garden of Survival (1918)
  11. The Promise of Air (1918)
  12. The Bright Messenger (1921)
  13. Dudley and Gilderoy (1929)
  14. The Fruit Stoners (1934)
  15. How the Circus Came to Tea (1968)

Omnibus

  1. Jimbo / The Education of Uncle Paul (2007)

Collections

  1. The Empty House (1906)
  2. The Listener, and Other Stories (1907)
  3. Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (1911)
  4. Pan’s Garden (1912)
  5. Incredible Adventures (1914)
  6. The Lost Valley (1914)
  7. Ten Minute Stories (1914)
  8. Day and Night Stories (1917)
  9. The Wolves of God (1921)
  10. Tongues of Fire (1924)
  11. The Dance of Death (1927)
  12. Strange Stories (1929)
  13. The Willows (1934)
  14. Shocks (1935)
  15. The Tales of Algernon Blackwood (1938)
  16. The Doll and One Other (1946)
  17. Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural (1949)
  18. Tales of Mysterious and Macabre, Vol. 2 (1962)
  19. Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre (1962)
  20. The Insanity of Jones (1964)
  21. Selected Tales (1964)
  22. The Best Supernatural Tales of Algernon Blackwood (1973)
  23. Tales of Terror and Darkness (1977)
  24. A Mysterious House (1987)
  25. The Magic Mirror (1989)
  26. Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural, Vol. 1 (2002)
  27. Pan’s Garden / Incredible Adventures (2007)
  28. The Face of the Earth and Other Imaginings (2015)
  29. The Whisperers and Other Stories (2022)

Chapbooks

  1. The Damned (1914)
  2. The Camp of the Dog (2004)
  3. The Listener (2004)
  4. Max Hensig (2004)
  5. The Nemesis of Fire (2004)
  6. The Other Wing (2004)
  7. Running Wolf (2004)
  8. Secret Worship (2004)
  9. A Victim Of Higher Space (2004)
  10. Wayfarers (2004)

Novellas

  1. A Haunted Island (1899)
  2. The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York (1906)
  3. The Wendigo (1910)
  4. The Glamour of the Snow (1912)
  5. Ancient Lights (1914)
  6. The Wings of Horus (1917)

Non fiction

  1. Episodes Before Thirty (1923)

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John Silence

Dr John Silence, widely respected and admired, is known as a ‘psychic doctor’. The cases that his special powers are called upon to deal with are out of the ordinary, intangible and of a difficult nature best described as ‘psychical afflictions’. In this collection of cases, John Silence uses his spiritual insight to solve the afflictions of his patients, with all the skill and perception of the first class psychic detective for which he has become celebrated.

A Psychical Invasion

Dr. John Silence treats call it a sicknesses of the spirit. His patients require the skills not merely of a physician, but of a spiritual detective; a Sherlock Holmes of the arcane; an M. Pirot of the outre. These are the annals of his most mind numbing cases. Volume I: A Psychical Invasion Jacketless library hardcover.

Ancient Sorceries

By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood’s writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work including ‘The Willows,’ which Lovecraft singled out as ‘the single finest weird tale in literature’; ‘The Wendigo’; ‘The Insanity of Jones’; and ‘Sand.’

The Complete John Silence Stories

From a master storyteller of supernatural tales come six horror stories that launched the career of ‘psychic doctor’ John Silence. Ghost story fans will delight in ‘A Psychical Invasion,’ in which a house is apparently haunted by former tenants; ‘Ancient Sorceries,’ which tells of strange experiences in a small French town; as well as ‘Secret Worship,’ ‘The Nemesis of Fire,’ ‘The Camp of God,’ and ‘A Victim of Higher Space.’ Edited and with an introduction by occult fiction authority S. T. Joshi.

The Education of Uncle Paul

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Jimbo

CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE RABBITS…
I CHAPTER I1 MISS LAKE COMES AND GOES . . 16 CHAPTER I11 THE SHOCK…
. 30 CHAPTER IV ON THE EDGE . . 38 CHAPTER V INTO THE EMPTY HOUSE . . S 42 CHAPTER V1 HIS PRISON FRIEND . 56 CHAPTER V11 UNDER THE SPELL . 73 CHAPTER V111 THE GALLERY OF MEMORIES . 87 vii…
Vlll CHAPTER IX THE MEANS OF ESCAPE . CHAPTER X THE PLUNGE…
CHAPTER XI THE FIRST FLIGHT . CHAPTER XI1 THE FOUR WINDS…
CHAPTER XI11 FLIGHT . CHAPTER XIV AN ADVENTURE . CHAPTER XV THE CALL OF THE BODY . CHAPTER XVI PREPARATION . CHAPTER XVII OFF . CHAPTER XVIII HOME . PAGE 95 Jimbo A FANTASY CHAPTER I JimboS governess ought to have known better but she didnt. If she had, Jimbo would never have met with the adventures that subsequently came to him. Thus, in a roundabout sort of way, the child ought to have been thankful to the governess and perhaps, in a roundabout sort of way, he was. But that comes at the far end of the story, and is doubtful at best and in the meanwhile the child had gone through his suffering, and the governess had in some measure expiated her fault so that at this stage it is only necessary to note that the whole business began because the Empty House happened to be really an Empty House not the one Jimbos family lived in, but another of which more will be known in due course. Jimbos father was a retired Colonel, who had married late in life, and now lived all the year round in the country and Jimbo was the youngest child but one. The Colonel, lean in body as he was sincere in mind, an excellent soldier but a poor diplomatist, loved dogs, horses, guns and riding . whips. He also really understood them. His neighbours, had they been asked, would have called him hard headed, and so far as a soft hearted man may deserve the title, he probably was. He rode two horses a day to hounds with the best of them, and the stiffer the country the better he liked it. Besides his guns, dogs and horses, he was also very fond of his children. It was his hobby that he understood them far better than his wife did, or than any one else did, for that matter. The proper evolution of their differing temperaments had no difficulties for him. The delicate problems of child nature, which defy solution by nine parents out of ten, ceased to exist the moment he spread out his muscular hand in a favourite omnipotent gesture and uttered some extraordinarily foolish generality in that thunderous, good natured voice of his. The difficulty for himself vanished when he ended up with the words, Leave that to me, my dear believe me, I know best But for all else concerned, and especially for the child under discussion, this was when the difficulty really began. Since, however, the Colonel, after this chapter, mounts his best hunter and disappears over a high hedge into space so far as our story is concerned, any further delineation of his wholesome, but very ordinary, type is unnecessary. One winters evening, not very long after Rabbits S Christmas, the Colonel made a discovery. It alarmed him a little for it suggested to his cocksure mind that he did not understand all his children as comprehensively as he imagined. Between five oclock tea and dinner that magic hour when lessons were over and the big house was full of shadows and mystery there came a timid knock at the study door…

The Human Chord

excerpt from CHAPTER III:’Lonely! Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?’ THOREAU March had passed shouting away, and April was whispering deliciously among her scented showers when O’Malley went on board the coasting steamer at Marseilles for the Levant and the Black Sea. The mistral made the land unbearable, but herds of white horses ran galloping over the bay beneath a sky of childhood’s blue. The ship started punctually,he came on board as usual with a bare minute’s margin and from his rapid survey of the thronged upper deck, it seems, he singled out on the instant this man and boy, wondering first vaguely at their uncommon air of bulk, secondly at the absence of detail which should confirm it. They appeared so much bigger than they actually were. The laughter, rising in his heart, however, did not get as far as his lips. For this appearance of massive bulk, and of shoulders comely yet almost humped, was not borne out by a direct inspection. It was a mental impression. The man, though broad and well proportioned, with heavy back and neck and uncommonly sturdy torso, was in no sense monstrous. It was upon the corner of the eye that the bulk and hugeness dawned, a false report that melted under direct vision. O’Malley took him in with attention merging in respect, searching in vain for the detail of back and limbs and neck that suggested so curiously the sense of the gigantic. The boy beside him, obviously son, possessed the same elusive attributes felt yet never positively seen. Passing down to his cabin, wondering vaguely to what nationality they might belong, he was immediately behind them, elbowing French and German tourists, when the father abruptly turned and faced him. Their gaze met. O’Malley started. ‘Whew…
!’ ran some silent expression like fire through his brain. Out of a massive visage, placid for all its ruggedness, shone eyes large and timid as those of an animal or child bewildered among so many people. There was an expression in them not so much cowed or dismayed as ‘un refuged’ the eyes of the hunted creature. That, at least, was the first thing they betrayed; for the same second the quick blooded Celt caught another look: the look of a hunted creature that at last knows shelter and has found it. The first expression had emerged, then withdrawn again swiftly like an animal into its hole where safety lay. Before disappearing, it had flashed a wireless message of warning, of welcome, of explanation,he knew not what term to use to another of its own kind, to himself.

The Centaur

excerpt from CHAPTER III:’Lonely! Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?’ THOREAU March had passed shouting away, and April was whispering deliciously among her scented showers when O’Malley went on board the coasting steamer at Marseilles for the Levant and the Black Sea. The mistral made the land unbearable, but herds of white horses ran galloping over the bay beneath a sky of childhood’s blue. The ship started punctually,he came on board as usual with a bare minute’s margin and from his rapid survey of the thronged upper deck, it seems, he singled out on the instant this man and boy, wondering first vaguely at their uncommon air of bulk, secondly at the absence of detail which should confirm it. They appeared so much bigger than they actually were. The laughter, rising in his heart, however, did not get as far as his lips. For this appearance of massive bulk, and of shoulders comely yet almost humped, was not borne out by a direct inspection. It was a mental impression. The man, though broad and well proportioned, with heavy back and neck and uncommonly sturdy torso, was in no sense monstrous. It was upon the corner of the eye that the bulk and hugeness dawned, a false report that melted under direct vision. O’Malley took him in with attention merging in respect, searching in vain for the detail of back and limbs and neck that suggested so curiously the sense of the gigantic. The boy beside him, obviously son, possessed the same elusive attributes felt yet never positively seen. Passing down to his cabin, wondering vaguely to what nationality they might belong, he was immediately behind them, elbowing French and German tourists, when the father abruptly turned and faced him. Their gaze met. O’Malley started. ‘Whew…
!’ ran some silent expression like fire through his brain. Out of a massive visage, placid for all its ruggedness, shone eyes large and timid as those of an animal or child bewildered among so many people. There was an expression in them not so much cowed or dismayed as ‘un refuged’ the eyes of the hunted creature. That, at least, was the first thing they betrayed; for the same second the quick blooded Celt caught another look: the look of a hunted creature that at last knows shelter and has found it. The first expression had emerged, then withdrawn again swiftly like an animal into its hole where safety lay. Before disappearing, it had flashed a wireless message of warning, of welcome, of explanation,he knew not what term to use to another of its own kind, to himself.

The Man Whom the Trees Loved

Algernon Henry Blackwood 1869 1951 was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature, and many of his stories reflect this. Although 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 1911, which climaxes with a traveller’s sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon 1916 and its sequel The Bright Messenger 1921, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution in human consciousness. His best stories, such as those collected in the book Incredible Adventures 1914, are masterpieces of atmosphere, construction and suggestion.

A Prisoner in Fairyland

In the train, even before St. John’s was passed, a touch of inevitable reaction had set in, and Rogers asked himself why he was going. For a sentimental journey was hardly in his line, it seemed. But no satisfactory answer was forthcoming none, at least, that a Board or a Shareholders’ Meeting would have considered satisfactory. The old vicar spoke to him strangely. ‘We’ve not forgotten you as you’ve forgotten us,’ he said. ‘And the place, though empty now for years, has not forgotten you either, I’ll be bound.’ Rogers brushed it off. Just silliness that was all it was. But after St. John’s the conductor shouted, ‘Take your seats! Take your seats! The Starlight Express is off to Fairyland! Show your tickets! Show your tickets!’ And then the forgotten mystery of his childhood came back to him…
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The Extra Day

Algernon Henry Blackwood 1869 1951 was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature, and many of his stories reflect this. Although 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 1911, which climaxes with a traveller’s sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon 1916 and its sequel The Bright Messenger 1921, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution in human consciousness. His best stories, such as those collected in the book Incredible Adventures 1914, are masterpieces of atmosphere, construction and suggestion.

Julius Levallon

1916. Before finding renown as a writer of ghost stories, Algernon Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, mining in the Alaskan goldfields, and working as a newspaper reporter in New York City before moving to England. His story The Willows is considered one of the finest supernatural tales ever written. Julius Levallon is a mystical reincarnation novel. It begins: It was one autumn in the late ‘nineties that I found myself at Bale, awaiting letters. I was returning leisurely from the Dolomites, where a climbing holiday had combined pleasantly with an examination of the geologically interesting Monzoni Valley. When the claims of the latter were exhausted, however, and I turned my eyes towards the peaks, it happened that bad weather held permanent possession of the great grey cliffs and towering pinnacles, and climbing was out of the question altogether. A world of savage desolation gloomed down upon me through impenetrable mists; the scouts of winter’s advance had established themselves upon all possible points of attack; and the whole tossed wilderness of precipice and scree lay safe, from my assaults at least, behind a frontier of furious autumn storms.

The Wave

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The Garden of Survival

Algernon Henry Blackwood 1869 1951 was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature, and many of his stories reflect this. Although 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 1911, which climaxes with a traveller’s sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon 1916 and its sequel The Bright Messenger 1921, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution in human consciousness. His best stories, such as those collected in the book Incredible Adventures 1914, are masterpieces of atmosphere, construction and suggestion.

The Promise of Air

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE return to London was a return to the demands of earth; from the bright and fiery aether of the southern climate they landed with something of a jar among sooty bricks and black edged mortar. The sunshine dimmed, the very air seemed solid. Regular hours of work made it difficult for him to lift his wings, much less to fly; he knew the London air was good, but he never noticed that it was air at all; he almost forgot they had ever lived in the air and flown at all. Grocers, butchers, and bakers taught Mrs. Wimble to become very practical, and the halfpenny newspapers stirred her social ambitions for her children. Wimble worked hard and capably, and they made both ends meet. He proved a patient husband and a devoted father, if perhaps a rather vague one. His moment of realisation was over. He accepted the routine of the majority, living methodically, almost automatically, yet always a little absent mindedly as though much of his intelligence was unconsciously at work elsewhere. Both parents altered; but, whereas his change was on the surface only, his wife’s seemed fundamentaland permanent. He was aware that he had altered, she was not aware. They differed radically, for instance, about the prolonged and golden honeymoon in the south. ‘The money lasted uncommonly well,’ said Mrs. Wimble when they spoke of it; ‘it was a pity we didn’t keep over a little, wasn’t it?’ There was a hint of asperity in the droop of her lips. ‘We should have it now if we had,’ he answered vaguely but with patience. ‘But for me it’s a memory that will always live.’ He spoke with longing tenderness. ‘What?’ said Mrs. Wimble, who, like all slow thinkers, liked sentences repeated, thus giving time to find an intelligent reply. ‘We had a lovely time out there,’ she admitted wit…

The Bright Messenger

Edward Fillery is the child of a brief but passionate liaison between an engineer and a strangely beautiful peasant girl. Blessed with special insight and with a ‘primal quality’ in his blood, Edward becomes a doctor, helping and healing those with distressing psychological illnesses. When he hears of an unusual case in Switzerland he is intrigued and moved. The young male patient, apparently born of a ‘magical experiment’, is a man of mystical tendencies, a worshipper of natural forces. And when he sees a portrait of the patient, there is a brief, indefinable spark of recognition…

Jimbo / The Education of Uncle Paul

Two supernatural novels set in the world of children, but written for adults, originally published in 1909.

The Empty House

From The Empty House: ‘Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. With houses it is the aroma of evil deeds committed under a particular roof, long after the actual doers have passed away, that makes the gooseflesh come and the hair rise. Something of the original passion of the evil doer, and of the horror felt by his victim, enters the heart of the innocent watcher, and he becomes suddenly conscious of tingling nerves, creeping skin, and a chilling of the blood. He is terror stricken without apparent cause…
. ‘Also included in this volume are ‘A Haunted Island,’ ‘A Case of Eavesdropping,’ ‘Keeping His Promise,’ ‘With Intent to Steal,’ ‘The Wood of the Dead,’ ‘Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House,’ ‘A Suspicious Gift,’ ‘The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York,’ and ‘Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp.’

The Listener, and Other Stories

Blackwood’s legendary collection of stories. Second to appear by this author. Includes ‘The Willows.’

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood‘ is a collection of supernatural stories by one of the greatest writers of such stories to have ever lived. This collection contains the story, ‘Ancient Sorceries’, which is the tale of a tourist who becomes enchanted by a strange French town and the ancient secrets that are hidden there. Also included in this collection is one of Blackwood’s most celebrated stories, ‘The Willows’, the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night, as well as the following eleven tales: ‘Secret Worship’, ‘The Glamour of the Snow’, ‘The Wendigo’, ‘The Other Wing’, ‘The Transfer’, ‘Ancient Lights’, ‘The Listener’, ‘The Empty House’, ‘Accessory Before the Fact’, ‘Keeping His Promise’, and ‘Max Hensig’.

Incredible Adventures

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The Lost Valley

Included in this volume of tales of terror are the classic Blackwood stories, ‘The Lost Valley,’ ‘The Wendigo,’ ‘Old Clothes,’ ‘Perspective,’ ‘The Terror of the Twins,’ ‘The Man from the ‘Gods,” ‘The Man Who Played upon the Leaf,’ ‘The Price of Wiggins’s Orgy,’ ‘Carlton’s Drive,’ and ‘The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute.’

Day and Night Stories

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The Wolves of God

Although 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 traveller’s sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and ‘

The Willows

Algernon Henry Blackwood, 1869 1951 was an English writer of supernatural fiction. Blackwood was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, a newspaper reporter in New York, and essayist for various periodicals. His works included ten collections of short stories, fourteen novels, children’s stories, and several plays. Many of his stories reflect his love of nature and the outdoors. His two best known stories are ‘The Willows‘ and ‘The Wendigo’. An excerpt from The Willows reads ‘They first became properly visible, these huge figures, just within the tops of the bushes immense, bronze colored, moving, and wholly independent of the swaying of the branches. I saw them plainly and noted, now I came to examine them more calmly, that they were very much larger than human, and indeed that something in their appearance proclaimed them to be not human at all. Certainly they were not merely the moving tracery of the branches against the moonlight. They shifted independently. They rose upwards in a continuous stream from earth to sky, vanishing utterly as soon as they reached the dark of the sky. They were interlaced one with another, making a great column, and I saw their limbs and huge bodies melting in and out of each other, forming this serpentine line that bent and swayed and twisted spirally with the contortions of the wind tossed trees. They were nude, fluid shapes, passing up the bushes, within the leaves almost rising up in a living column into the heavens. Their faces I never could see. Unceasingly they poured upwards, swaying in great bending curves, with a hue of dull bronze upon their skins…
. For the longer I looked the more certain I became that these figures were real and living, though perhaps not according to the standards that the camera and the biologist would insist upon.’

Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural

Algernon Blackwood continues to demonstrate the power of his words as he shocks and disturbs in this collection of supernatural tales. In a world where the line between sanity and insanity becomes increasingly blurred, tales such as ‘Violence’ demonstrate the mind’s ability to deceive itself to a horrifying end, whilst ‘The Terror of the Twins’ portrays the destructive power of hate from beyond the grave. In tales where a happy ending is hard to find, prepare yourself for a journey into the darkest elements of the human psyche.

Pan’s Garden / Incredible Adventures

Two classic short story collections from the master supernatural storyteller ‘the last outburst of his golden period,’ according to biographer Mike Ashley. Blackwood takes us to other places, and other worlds.

The Damned

Algernon Henry Blackwood 1869 1951 was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature, and many of his stories reflect this. Although 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 1911, which climaxes with a traveller’s sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon 1916 and its sequel The Bright Messenger 1921, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution in human consciousness. His best stories, such as those collected in the book Incredible Adventures 1914, are masterpieces of atmosphere, construction and suggestion.

The Listener

The same walls, too, carried mirrors in which I used sometimes to see reflected the misty lawns of childhood, the daisy chains, the wind torn blossoms scattered through the orchard by warm rains, the robbers’ cave in the long walk, and the hidden store of apples in the hayloft. She was my inseparable companion then but, when the door slammed, the mirrors cracked across their entire length, and the visions they held vanished for ever. Now I am quite alone. At forty one cannot begin all over again to build up careful friendships, and all others are comparatively worthless.

Max Hensig

Algernon Henry Blackwood 1869 1951 was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature, and many of his stories reflect this. Although 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 1911, which climaxes with a traveller’s sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius Le Vallon 1916 and its sequel The Bright Messenger 1921, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution in human consciousness. His best stories, such as those collected in the book Incredible Adventures 1914, are masterpieces of atmosphere, construction and suggestion.

The Wendigo

Algernon Henry Blackwood 1869 1951 was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature, and many of his stories reflect this. Although 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 1911, which climaxes with a traveller’s sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon 1916 and its sequel The Bright Messenger 1921, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution in human consciousness. His best stories, such as those collected in the book Incredible Adventures 1914, are masterpieces of atmosphere, construction and suggestion.

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