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The Centaur
Algernon Blackwood
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R831
Discovery Miles 8 310
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Four Weird Tales
Algernon Blackwood
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R825
Discovery Miles 8 250
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Algernon Blackwood's spooky stories remain as dark, chilling and
readable today as the time they were first published at the
beginning of the 20th century. Algernon Blackwood was well-regarded
in life as a master of the short horror story. Intertwining the
supernatural and unexplained into a series of compelling
narratives, the reader is left confused, scared and thrilled by the
bizarre occurrences that puzzle, traumatize and terrify his
characters. Blackwood's deft use of ambiguous endings leave the
reader to interpret what may have happened. The author's stories
exerted an enormous influence on H.P. Lovecraft (who himself termed
Blackwood a 'master' of the craft of supernatural storytelling) and
other horror authors. Together with strange and frightening tales,
he was an enthusiastic author of essays and plays. As well as the
'weird' fiction for which he was famed, Blackwood would also write
ordinary stories and tales aimed at younger audiences.
The Algernon Blackwood Collection includes four of the best
Blackwood novellas: The Empty House, The Damned, The Willows and
The Wendigo.
The Willows Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube
River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding
environment - river, sun, wind - and imbues them with a powerful
and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses
of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which "moved of their own
will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable
method, my own keen sense of the horrible." "The Willows" is one of
Algernon Blackwood's best known novellas or novelettes. American
horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest
supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an
example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary
tradition of weird fiction. And seven other novellas or novelettes,
including the famous "The Wendigo".
Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English writer of tales of
the supernatural. The character of John Silence pioneered the
"psychic detective" genre. This volume contains all six stories of
John Silence and his investinations into the paranormal.
A nice collection with nineteen of Algernon Blackwoods horror and
fantasy stories.
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