Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507564011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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This illustrated and annotated edition of Blackwood's most influential and mesmerizing weird fiction, ghost stories, and strange tales is the only one of its kind available on the market. Richly annotated, bolstered with introductory essays for each story, and complete with chilling chiaroscuro illustrations, it presents a treasure trove to the ardent Blackwoodian. Welcomed by many as the most skillful practitioner of the British weird tale, Algernon Blackwood was capable of simultaneously creating a misanthropic, Lovecraftian cosmos devoid of compassion for petty, materialistic mankind, and a transcendental, Emersonian universe, pregnant with spirituality and wonder. At once horrifying and fantastical, chilling and euphoric, Blackwood's poetic prose and undisputed mastery of psychological terror make him an unavoidable giant in the realms of weird fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494821739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Algernon Blackwood was an English short story writer best known for ghost and horror stories. Blackwood's best known works are The Willows and The Wendigo.
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312184906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 509
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The Willows Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment - river, sun, wind - and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which ""moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible."" ""The Willows"" is one of Algernon Blackwood's best known novellas or novelettes. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. ""The Willows"" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction. And seven other novellas or novelettes, including the famous "The Wendigo."
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781963228199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Collected here, in a single volume, are two of Algernon Blackwood's best-known weird short stories: "The Willows" and "The Wendigo."
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030408663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 867
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By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781582879536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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This unique and meticulously edited collection includes: The Willows_x000D_ The Insanity of Jones_x000D_ Ancient Sorceries_x000D_ The Man Who Found Out_x000D_ The Wendigo_x000D_ The Glamour of the Snow_x000D_ The Man Whom the Trees Loved_x000D_ Sand
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101157151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows," which Lovecraft singled out as "the single finest weird tale in literature"; "The Wendigo"; "The Insanity of Jones"; and "Sand." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Arthur B. Reeve
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781512146882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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"The Best Ghost Stories" from Arthur B. Reeve. American mystery writer (1880-1936).
