A British traveller in France stops in a remote French hill town with some very unusual inhabitants and soon finds himself unable to leave a scholar staying in a lodging house feels himself observed by a malevolent presence two friends on a canoeing trip spend a night on a lonely willow-covered island in the middle of the Danube, haunted by the strange trees and sinister shapes in the water.Īlgernon Blackwood is one of Britain's greatest ever proponents of weird and supernatural stories This collection contains four of his most unnervingly curious tales: 'Ancient Sorceries', 'The Listener', 'The Sea Fit' and 'The Willows'. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.A British traveller in France stops in a remote French hill town with some very unusual inhabitants and soon finds himself unable to leave a scholar staying in a lodging house feels himself observed by a malevolent presence two friends on a canoeing trip spend a night on a lonely willow-covered island in the middle of the Danube, haunted by the strange trees and sinister shapes in the water.Īlgernon Blackwood is one of Britain's greatest ever proponents of weird and su.
All together this collection includes eighteen of Blackwood's most haunting tales. Blackwood is famous for his unsurpassed ability to create foreboding moods, slowly building suspense, and keeping readers on the edges of their seats. Blackwood interwove both the traditional elements of horror literature, such as haunted houses and ghosts, with ideas far ahead of his time, like cosmic experiences, advanced beings, and multiple dimensions of existence. Lovecraft to be one of the finest supernatural stories ever written. Included in this collection are such classic tales as "Ancient Sorceries", which follows a tourist who becomes enchanted by a strange French town and the ancient secrets that are hidden there, and the "The Willows", which was considered by H. Born in London in 1869, Blackwood began publishing ghost stories in 1906 and became a prolific writer, as well as a journalist and radio broadcaster.
"Best Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood" is a collection of frightening tales by one of the greatest British writers of supernatural fiction of the twentieth century.
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