During a career spanning sixty-one years, Algernon Henry Blackwood wrote more stories and novels in the realms of the psychic, mystic, and supernatural than any other contemporary. Much of his neoromantic fiction is of high quality and particularly...
During a sixty-one-year career Algernon Blackwood wrote more stories and novels featuring psychic, mystical, and supernatural phenomena than any other contemporary. Many of his short stories are of high quality and particularly excel at evoking...
Algernon Henry Blackwood is one of the most respected writers in the fields of fantasy and horror fiction, and Everett F. Bleiler has called him "the foremost British supernaturalist of the twentieth century." Widely admired for his many ghost stories...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD An Extraordinary Life By Mike Ashley Carroll & Graf. 395 pp. $28 If you were to ask readers of supernatural fiction to name the greatest story in the genre, the winner would almost certainly be "The Willows." Odds...
The last few decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth have often been described as "the golden age of the English ghost story" (Cox and Gilbert xiii). This was a rarified time "when authors excelled themselves at producing" highly...
