![]() ![]() In the early twentieth century, Algernon Blackwood entered into a feverish creative period, penning a flood of classic stories and novels from his home in Switzerland. Since most of Blackwood’s work is in public domain, you can find ebooks containing almost all his short stories-with more or less adequate formatting-including the ones I’ll discuss below. The Complete John Silence Stories contains the full text of John Silence-Physician Extraordinary (1908), and there are also small press editions of Incredible Adventures (1914) and the volume I’m looking at here, The Lost Valley and Other Stories (1910), the fourth of Blackwood’s original collections. Small presses have brought out editions of Blackwood’s original collections as they were first published. Most readers came across Blackwood’s work in anthologies of ghost stories or in “Best of” collections like Penguin’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Tales. ![]() James, Blackwood is the author most suited toward quiet reading on October nights. He was a direct influence on my Gothic horror story “The Shredded Tapestry.” With the possibly exception of M. ![]() Blackwood was enormously popular as an author of ghost stories-or so they were classified-in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy has stretched on through the many authors who learned their sense of the supernatural and the transcendental through his work. ![]() My favorite author of the “weird tale,” and by extension supernatural horror in general, is Algernon Blackwood. ![]()
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