The Washington Post, February 3rd, 2002
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 are that in the top 10 you'd also find "The Wendigo" and "Ancient Sorceries." All three are by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), who lived, as Mike Ashley says, "an extraordinary life" and was an even more extraordinary writer. Just murmur some of his titles on a shadowy evening and you'll begin to feel the shivers that he so wonderfully evokes and sustains: "The Lis...
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