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Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories
A chilling new collection of supernatural tales from the Victorian master of horror, and the subtle manipulation of dread.
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.
Stories included in the anthology:
- The Willows
- The Sea Fit
- The Wendigo
- The Glamour of the Snow
- Ancient Lights
- Special Delivery
- By Water
- H.S.H.
- May Day Eve
- The Camp of the Dog
- The Terror of the Twins
- The Transfer
- Strange Disappearance of a Baronet
- The Wings of Horus
- Tongues of Fire
- The Doll
- Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House
- Ancient Sorceries
- Secret Worship
- The Man Who Found Out
- A Victim of Higher Space
- The Other Wing
- The Pikestaffe Case
- A Haunted Island
- Keeping His Promise
- The Empty House
- The Listener
- The Kit-Bag
- The Occupant of the Room
- The Damned
- The Decoy.
Flame Tree Gothic & Fantasy, as well as Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections, bring together the entire range of myth, folklore, epic literature 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.
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.
Stories included in the anthology:
- The Willows
- The Sea Fit
- The Wendigo
- The Glamour of the Snow
- Ancient Lights
- Special Delivery
- By Water
- H.S.H.
- May Day Eve
- The Camp of the Dog
- The Terror of the Twins
- The Transfer
- Strange Disappearance of a Baronet
- The Wings of Horus
- Tongues of Fire
- The Doll
- Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House
- Ancient Sorceries
- Secret Worship
- The Man Who Found Out
- A Victim of Higher Space
- The Other Wing
- The Pikestaffe Case
- A Haunted Island
- Keeping His Promise
- The Empty House
- The Listener
- The Kit-Bag
- The Occupant of the Room
- The Damned
- The Decoy.
Flame Tree Gothic & Fantasy, as well as Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections, bring together the entire range of myth, folklore, epic literature 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.
480 pages, Hardcover
First published October 24, 2023
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About the author
Algernon Blackwood
1,334 books1,174 followersAlgernon Henry Blackwood (1869–1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".
Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas." Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and, throughout his adult life, an occasional essayist for various periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was very successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels, several children's books, and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors, and many of his stories reflect this.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote of Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerful story "The Willows," which effectively describes another dimension impinging upon our own, was reckoned by Lovecraft to be not only "foremost of all" Blackwood's tales but the best "weird tale" of all time.
Among his thirty-odd books, Blackwood wrote a series of stories and short novels published as John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908), which featured a "psychic detective" who combined the skills of a Sherlock Holmes and a psychic medium. Blackwood also wrote light fantasy and juvenile books.
Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas." Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and, throughout his adult life, an occasional essayist for various periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was very successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels, several children's books, and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors, and many of his stories reflect this.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote of Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerful story "The Willows," which effectively describes another dimension impinging upon our own, was reckoned by Lovecraft to be not only "foremost of all" Blackwood's tales but the best "weird tale" of all time.
Among his thirty-odd books, Blackwood wrote a series of stories and short novels published as John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908), which featured a "psychic detective" who combined the skills of a Sherlock Holmes and a psychic medium. Blackwood also wrote light fantasy and juvenile books.
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July 30, 2024
I initially borrowed this book because the cover is so pretty. I didn't even realize the stories are all from Algernon Blackwood until half way through the first story. The writing style is so uniquely poetic, I was able to recognize even though I already forgot what the story was about.
I read about 10 stories, most of them are suitably short. The atmosphere was incredibly dark and captivating, though it fell short of making me actually scared (very very few books manage to do that).
Returned it because I wasn't in the mood for horror anymore, but will certainly pick it up again closer to halloween.
I read about 10 stories, most of them are suitably short. The atmosphere was incredibly dark and captivating, though it fell short of making me actually scared (very very few books manage to do that).
Returned it because I wasn't in the mood for horror anymore, but will certainly pick it up again closer to halloween.
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