Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural

by Algernon Blackwood

Contents:
1 • The Doll • (1946) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
36 • Running Wolf • (1920) • short story by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
56 • The Little Beggar • (1919) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
61 • The Occupant of the Room • (1909) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
71 • The Man Whom the Trees Loved • (1912) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
144 • The Valley of the Beasts • (1921) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
166 • The South Wind • (1912) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
170 • The Man Who Was Milligan • (1923) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
181 • The Trod • (1946) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
213 • The Terror of the Twins • (1909) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
221 • The Deferred Appointment • (1911) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
227 • Accessory Before the Fact • (1914) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
234 • The Glamour of the Snow • (1911) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
256 • The House of the Past • (1914) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
262 • The Decoy • (1921) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
283 • The Tradition • (1913) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
289 • The Touch of Pan • (1917) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
311 • Entrance and Exit • (1909) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
316 • The Pikestaffe Case • (1924) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
349 • The Empty Sleeve • (1911) • short story by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
366 • Violence • (1913) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
374 • The Lost Valley • (1910) • novella by Algernon Blackwood

436 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

Algernon 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.