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The Whisperers and Other Stories - A Lifetime of the Supernatural (Hardcover): Algernon Blackwood The Whisperers and Other Stories - A Lifetime of the Supernatural (Hardcover)
Algernon Blackwood; Edited by Mike Ashley
R505 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R82 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Back from the shouting floor and ceiling came the chorus of images that stormed and clamoured for expression. Jones lay still and listened; he let them come. There was nothing else to do.' Algernon Blackwood was one of the most influential writers of twentieth-century weird and supernatural fiction. He once told a correspondent that every story he wrote was based on either a personal experience or that of someone he knew, and thus the vast collection of short stories and novels published in his lifetime can be seen to form a kind of autobiography. In this collection of his most atmospheric and uneasy tales, Mike Ashley provides the facts of Blackwood's life which inspired each story - including experiences as an intelligence agent in the First World War and adventures in New York - to tell the parallel tale of the author's lifetime of the supernatural.

Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories: Algernon Blackwood Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories
Algernon Blackwood; Foreword by Ramsey Campbell
R650 R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Save R113 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Algernon Blackwood, a founding father of modern ghost and horror stories, is one of the great horror writers of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. With M.R. James, William Hope Hodgson and Arthur Machen, he inspired generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Shirley Jackson, Robert Bloch to Ramsey Campbell. Although The Willows and The Wendigo are his most well-known, this new collection brings together many of his other finely crafted tales, including 'The Empty House', 'A Haunted Island', 'The Transfer' and 'The Kit-Bag'. The Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.

The Empty House, and Other Ghost Stories (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood The Empty House, and Other Ghost Stories (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood; Introduction by Ruth Heholt
R222 R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Save R40 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Algernon Blackwood, one of the founding fathers of modern ghost and horror stories, inspired generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Shirley Jackson and our very own Ramsey Campbell. Blackwood's 'The Empty House' is one of the most famous haunted house stories in the English language, with its carefully crafted gathering of tension and dread inference of terrors lurking at the end of every corridor, around every corner, through every half-opened door. This edition includes 'A Haunted Island', 'The Wood of the Dead', 'Skeleton Lake' and several other ghoulish tales. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. Each book features a brand new biography and a new glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms.

Shocks (Paperback, New edition): Algernon Blackwood Shocks (Paperback, New edition)
Algernon Blackwood
R337 R311 Discovery Miles 3 110 Save R26 (8%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Ancient Sorceries (Hardcover): Algernon Blackwood Ancient Sorceries (Hardcover)
Algernon Blackwood; Designed by Joe McLaren
R407 R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Save R74 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A British traveller in France stops in a remote French hill town with some very unusual inhabitants and soon finds himself unable to leave; a scholar staying in a lodging house feels himself observed by a malevolent presence; two friends on a canoeing trip spend a night on a lonely willow-covered island in the middle of the Danube, haunted by the strange trees and sinister shapes in the water... Algernon Blackwood is one of Britain's greatest ever proponents of weird and supernatural stories. This collection contains four of his most unnervingly curious tales: 'Ancient Sorceries', 'The Listener', 'The Sea Fit' and 'The Willows'.

Roarings from Further Out - Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood (Paperback): Xavier Aldana Reyes Roarings from Further Out - Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood (Paperback)
Xavier Aldana Reyes; Algernon Blackwood 1
R314 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The reputation of early-twentieth century British writer Algernon Blackwood currently resides with his two novellas `The Willows' (1907) and `The Wendigo' (1910), and with good reason. They are perfectly crafted horror tales that convey feelings of mystical otherness; they hint at the possibility that there are forces which lie beyond the confines of our everyday understanding of the world and which may, given the right circumstances, manifest to humans. In `The Willows', `unearthly' creatures are responsible for arousing `some dim ancestral sense of terror more profoundly disturbing than anything' the protagonists have ever known. In `The Wendigo', fear of the titular monster from Native American folklore is used to create a discombobulating atmosphere of dread. In both novellas, as in many other of Blackwood's fictions, wild landscapes (a desolate island, a labyrinthine forest) act as more than enhancing backdrops to the action - they become essential elements to the generation of anxiety and metaphysical awe. Both stories have become staples of the weird literary tradition, of which Blackwood was undoubtedly a modern master. Blackwood's slow and measured prose, deeply psychological and descriptive, grants his fiction an intrinsic cumulative effect. It both builds up to potent climaxes and brilliantly chronicles the aftermath of horrific encounters. His poignant narrative pace, sparse use of action and marked interest in how the mind filters perceptions, rather than on objective physical descriptions, makes Blackwood truly unique. Only a handful of other stories in horror fiction manage to conjure up the type of uncanny ambience found in `The Willows' and `The Wendigo'. This is why they are included in this collection.

The Unknown - Weird Writings, 1900-1937 (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood The Unknown - Weird Writings, 1900-1937 (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood
R435 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R73 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new selection of Algernon Blackwood's essays and short stories is a unique combination of supernatural writing and the author's own reflections on the art of fiction, and the themes and impulses that created these remarkable stories. Blackwood (1869-1951) is one of the great names in Weird writing, and one of the foremost British writers of horror, supernatural and ghost stories. His talent for expressing unknown fears come through strongly in these tales of the Canadian backwoods, Alpine mountaineering and desert loneliness. His deep interest in extending consciousness beyond human faculties produced short stories to lead the reader into wild and remote settings, to face nature at its most awe-inspiring and terrifying, and to sense, if only briefly, the immensity of the unknown forces beyond. Stories include: 'Skeleton Lake', 'The Wolves of God', 'The Glamour of the Snow', 'The Sacrifice', 'The Insanity of Jones', 'The Tarn of Sacrifice', 'By Water' and 'Imagination'. Essays include: 'Mid the Haunts of the Moose', 'The Winter Alps', 'On Reincarnation' and 'The Genesis of Ideas'. This selection of Blackwood's writing has been curated with an Introduction by Henry Bartholomew, of the University of Plymouth.

The Wendigo and Other Stories: Algernon Blackwood The Wendigo and Other Stories
Algernon Blackwood; Edited by Aaron Worth
R230 Discovery Miles 2 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'See!...The woods are alive! Already the Great Ones are there, and the dance will soon begin! The salve is here! Anoint yourself and come!' One of the greatest writers of the strange and weird, Algernon Blackwood evolved from a teller of ghost stories to a pioneering master of such emergent fictional modes as cosmic horror and nature Gothic. In tales whose settings range from the eerie North Woods of Canada to the mysterious sands of the Egyptian desert, Blackwood blurs the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk, waiting for the chance to break through into our world. This new selection of Blackwood's shorter fiction constitutes the most comprehensive critical edition of his work to date. Included here are such undisputed classics as 'The Wendigo', 'The Willows', and 'Ancient Sorceries', as well as two superbly unsettling novellas, 'The Man Whom the Trees Loved' and 'A Descent into Egypt', and ten other stories short and long, drawn from collections spanning Blackwood's long writing career. Aaron Worth's introduction and notes situate these tales in the context of Blackwood's own upbringing in an evangelical Victorian household, as well as in relation to such topics as late-imperial British history and the emergence of modern ecological thought. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Lure of the Unknown - Essays on the Strange (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood The Lure of the Unknown - Essays on the Strange (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood; Edited by Mike Ashley
R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (Paperback, New edition): Algernon Blackwood Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (Paperback, New edition)
Algernon Blackwood
R466 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R69 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

13 great stories by foremost British 20th-century supernaturalist. "The Willows," "The Wendigo," "Ancient Sorceries," others.

Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood; Introduction by S.T. Joshi; Notes by S.T. Joshi
R423 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R104 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 workincluding the title story, the inspiration for Val Lewton's classic film Cat People; "The Willows," which Lovecraft singled out as "the single finest weird tale in literature"; "The Wendingo"; "The Insanity of Jones"; and "Sand."

This original Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes a fascinating Introduction and invaluable notes by S.T. Joshi.

The Listener and Other Stories (Paperback): Finn J D John The Listener and Other Stories (Paperback)
Finn J D John; Algernon Blackwood Cbe
R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jimbo - A Fantasy (Hardcover): Algernon Blackwood Jimbo - A Fantasy (Hardcover)
Algernon Blackwood; Contributions by Mint Editions
R349 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Save R59 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jimbo: A Fantasy (1909) is a novel by Algernon Blackwood. Having already established himself as a promising short story writer, Blackwood published his debut novel at the age of 40. A lifelong occultist, Blackwood was interested in the fine line between the human and spiritual realms, often incorporating supernatural elements into his work. Jimbo: A Fantasy is a story of a young boy's out of body experience after sustaining a terrible injury, a narrative that explores the vibrant worlds we wake to in our dreams. "Jimbo had fallen on his head. Inside that head lay the mass of highly sensitive matter called the brain, on which were recorded, of course, the impressions of everything that had yet come to him in life. [...] [H]e would have to wander, lost and lonely, through the comparative chaos of disproportioned visions, generally known as the region of delirium, until the doctor, assisted by mother nature, restored him once more to normal consciousness." Unsupervised, Jimmy wanders into the fields near his home. Charged by an angry bull, he falls and strikes his head, losing consciousness for an indeterminate period of time. As his body struggles to stay alive, his mind creates a world of its own, a haunting realm of dreams both fantastic and somehow realer, more vibrant, then the world he seems to have lost. Jimbo: A Fantasy is a story for children and adults alike, a novel that poses timeless questions regarding the nature of our existence, both upon earth and beyond. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Algernon Blackwood's Jimbo: A Fantasy is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

Jimbo - A Fantasy (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood Jimbo - A Fantasy (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood; Contributions by Mint Editions
R231 R196 Discovery Miles 1 960 Save R35 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jimbo: A Fantasy (1909) is a novel by Algernon Blackwood. Having already established himself as a promising short story writer, Blackwood published his debut novel at the age of 40. A lifelong occultist, Blackwood was interested in the fine line between the human and spiritual realms, often incorporating supernatural elements into his work. Jimbo: A Fantasy is a story of a young boy's out of body experience after sustaining a terrible injury, a narrative that explores the vibrant worlds we wake to in our dreams. "Jimbo had fallen on his head. Inside that head lay the mass of highly sensitive matter called the brain, on which were recorded, of course, the impressions of everything that had yet come to him in life. [...] [H]e would have to wander, lost and lonely, through the comparative chaos of disproportioned visions, generally known as the region of delirium, until the doctor, assisted by mother nature, restored him once more to normal consciousness." Unsupervised, Jimmy wanders into the fields near his home. Charged by an angry bull, he falls and strikes his head, losing consciousness for an indeterminate period of time. As his body struggles to stay alive, his mind creates a world of its own, a haunting realm of dreams both fantastic and somehow realer, more vibrant, then the world he seems to have lost. Jimbo: A Fantasy is a story for children and adults alike, a novel that poses timeless questions regarding the nature of our existence, both upon earth and beyond. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Algernon Blackwood's Jimbo: A Fantasy is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

A Prisoner in Fairyland (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood A Prisoner in Fairyland (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood; Contributions by Mint Editions
R459 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R70 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913) is a novel by Algernon Blackwood. Having already established himself as a promising short story writer, Blackwood began publishing novels at the age of 40. A lifelong occultist, Blackwood was interested in the fine line between the human and spiritual realms, often incorporating supernatural elements into his work. A Prisoner in Fairyland is a story of a wealthy retiree's return to the wonderful imaginative world of his youth. Hoping to spend the rest of his life in service of others, he gets the old Starlight Express up and running again. "For, from boyhood up, a single big ambition had ever thundered through his being-the desire to be of use to others. To help his fellow-kind was to be his profession and career." Henry Rogers has always been a dreamer. On the brink of retirement, he plans to use his carefully accumulated wealth to fulfill his philanthropic destiny. Initially unsure of the shape of his charitable contribution to society, a trip to his childhood home changes everything. There, he finds the old train carriage where he would spend days at a time immersed in a world of fantasy and adventure. Back on the Starlight Express, Rogers plans to take deserving passengers to the wondrous realm of Fairyland. He soon discovers, however, that his impassioned beliefs-however well-intentioned-risk condemnation and persecution from those whose investments on Earth prevent them from indulging in imaginative excursions into the unknown. A Prisoner in Fairyland is a story for children and adults alike, a novel that poses timeless questions regarding the nature of our existence, both upon earth and beyond. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Algernon Blackwood's A Prisoner in Fairyland is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

Jimbo - A Fantasy (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood Jimbo - A Fantasy (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood
R663 R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Save R122 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Centaur (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood The Centaur (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood
R783 R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Save R139 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wave (Esprios Classics) - An Egyptian Aftermath (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood The Wave (Esprios Classics) - An Egyptian Aftermath (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood
R855 R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Three More John Silence Stories (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood Three More John Silence Stories (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood
R610 R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Save R113 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Three John Silence Stories (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood Three John Silence Stories (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood
R672 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R122 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Incredible Adventures (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood Incredible Adventures (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood
R796 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R138 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bright Messenger (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood The Bright Messenger (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood
R911 R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Save R165 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Promise of Air (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood The Promise of Air (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood
R670 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R122 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Julius LeVallon (Esprios Classics) - An Episode (Paperback): Algernon Blackwood Julius LeVallon (Esprios Classics) - An Episode (Paperback)
Algernon Blackwood
R850 R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Algernon Blackwood's The Willows (Paperback): Nathan Carson Algernon Blackwood's The Willows (Paperback)
Nathan Carson; Illustrated by Sam Ford; Algernon Blackwood
R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This immortal novella of extra-dimensional weirdness on the Danube comes to vivid life in graphic comic form thanks to the incredibly detailed black-and-white linework of talented newcomer, Sam Ford. Writer Nathan Carson's thoughtful retelling reverently preserves the plot while breathing character-driven depth into this all-time classic. Two adventurous women, one British, one Swedish, encounter strange horrors in the Hungarian wilderness of 1907. What they discover on that crumbling sandbar makes them question their sanity, fear for their lives, and revel in otherworldly strangeness. Readers familiar with the story will delight in seeing it depicted in such painstaking, quality illustrations. And those for whom it is new will want to leave a light on for many nights after.

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