Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
(By Algernon Blackwood)
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Blackwood's ability to create an atmosphere of unrelieved horror and sustain it to the end of the story is almost unsurpassed. “The Willows” — which has been called by H.P. Lovecraft the finest supernatural story — is a typical example of Blackwood's art: slowly and surely Blackwood draws the reader into a world of shadows, nuances and unearthly terror.
Blackwood was also a master at evoking feelings of mysticism and cosmic experience; dealing with such ideas as interpenetrating levels of existence and pantheistic elemental powers, he expanded the content of supernatural literature enormously. But even the more traditional elements of horror stories such as ghosts and haunted houses are handled with such energy and feeling that they rise far above their predecessors.
Drawing on serious Oriental thought, modern psychology and philosophy, Algernon Blackwood introduced a sophistication to the horror story that — with a few exceptions — it was devoid of before. The results are stories that are not only guaranteed to chill, but stories that have something to say to the intelligent reader.
Contents:
- The Willows (1907)
- Secret Worship (1908)
- Ancient Sorceries (1908)
- The Glamour of the Snow (1911)
- The Wendigo (1910)
- The Other Wing (1915)
- The Transfer (1911)
- Ancient Lights (1914)
- The Listener (1907)
- The Empty House (1906)
- Accessory before the Fact (1914)
- Keeping His Promise (1906)
- Max Hensig (1945)
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