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Author: Algernon Blackwood Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 78
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"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature.[1] "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.
Author: Algernon Blackwood Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 1775454320 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 70
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Set on the snaking, sinuous Danube River, Algernon Blackwood's tale "The Willows" represents a high point in the development of the horror genre. Indeed, acknowledged master H.P. Lovecraft regarded it as the best supernatural tale ever written. More awe-inspiring and thought-provoking than gory or terrifying, "The Willows" is a must-read for fans of classic ghost stories.
Author: Algernon Blackwood Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 78
Book Description
"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature.[1] "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.
Author: Algernon Blackwood Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781540337801 Category : Languages : en Pages : 68
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Algernon Blackwood was a prolific English writer best known for being one of the greatest authors in the horror and ghost genres of fiction. Some of Blackwood's most famous work includes Incredible Adventures, The Centaur, The Wendigo, and The Willows. The Willows, published in 1907, is a classic horror novella that tells the story of two friends on a canoe trip who encounter many mysterious entities. The Wendigo, published in 1910, is a horror novella that centers around a group of five hunters seeking a moose. Will they find the moose or is there something else that they are tracking?
Author: Algernon Blackwood Publisher: ISBN: 1537816241 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 184
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These are stories steeped in the majesty and mystery of nature. You don't read them - you fall into them, as into a dream. Lulled into a false sense of security, you discover you are no longer within comfortable boundaries. Your eyes have been opened to a larger world. You are about to embark on an incredible adventure...
Author: Algernon Blackwood Publisher: Illuminated Editions ISBN: 9781948886000 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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A collection of the stories of Blackwood, precursor of Lovecraft and early master of weird fiction and uncanny horror has been lavishly illustrated by the celebrated graphic artist Pope..
Author: Algernon Blackwood Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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The writer of this book was well-known for his tales of the supernatural and horror. The book begins with a series of diary entries, describing the author's search for accommodation in London. We learn that he is of limited means and sells the occasional piece for a magazine. The rooms are described as ramshackle and dusty. He is the only occupant in the whole house and previous tenants have gone. Without saying so, there is a sense of unease even in the opening pages.
Author: Algernon Blackwood Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781080102174 Category : Languages : en Pages : 44
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Though he was a writer for all seasons, the stories I like best usually have a chill wind running through them. My favourite is one of his lesser known tales, from 1912: The Glamour of the Snow.It's set in the Alps, one of Blackwood's favourite locations, and tells of a writer's fatal attraction to a ghostly ice-skater whom he encounters on a deserted rink at night. It opens with a sentence that could pass as a summary of the whole Blackwood project: "Hibbert, always conscious of two worlds, was in this mountain village, conscious of three ..." There's the world of the wealthy English tourist, the patronisingly observed "peasant world" and "this other - which he could only call the world of Nature". Rarely can a capital letter have carried such freight: Blackwood's Nature isn't pastoral but a wild and dangerous other, which rears up in his stories to destroy the minds of those who try to get too close to it.Encounters with the uncanny in Blackwood's work are often signalled by upwards movement. In The Wendigo, a doomed tracker is heard screaming from the treetops, while the first sign of anything sinister in The Willows is an upward ripple of the stems. In The Glamour of the Snow it's the writer's own imagination that lures him out of the brightly lit ski resort and up the mountains, higher than anyone has ever gone before, in pursuit of the enchantress he has conjured out of the play of shadows and wind.Defiance of gravity continually undermines the common view, that "Nature ... is both blind and automatic". Blackwood's stories assert a deeper reality which, like the spectral skater, is always just "a little farther on, a little higher" than humans can grasp.I find it hard to work out why I find The Glamour of the Snow so alluring, as it's a simple story in which it is demonstrated that even a storyteller as slick as Blackwood was at a loss to find more than one English word for snow.But he understands compulsion better than any other writer I know. And the story is big enough to keep changing its meaning. I read it first as a ghost story, then as an account of the maddening power of storytelling. In the era of global warming, it has morphed - along with so much of Blackwood's work - into an eco-fable about the ravishing remorselessness of nature. Good to read by electric light, with curtains drawn.
Author: M. Grant Kellermeyer Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1304907821 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 80
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Welcomed by many as the most skillful practitioner of the British weird tale, Algernon Blackwood was capable of simultaneously creating a misanthropic, Lovecraftian cosmos devoid of compassion for petty, materialistic mankind, and a transcendental, Emersonian universe, pregnant with spirituality and wonder. At once horrifying and fantastical, chilling and euphoric, Blackwood's poetic prose and undisputed mastery of psychological terror make him an unavoidable giant in the realms of weird fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Author: M. Grant Kellermeyer