Algernon Blackwood





Algernon Blackwood

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born
March 14, 1869 in Shooter's Hill, The United Kingdom

died
December 10, 1951

gender
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Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas".Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and, throughout his adult life, an occasional essayist for various periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was very successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He als...more


Average rating: 3.98 · 3,491 ratings · 431 reviews · 215 distinct works
Best Ghost Stories of Alger...
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The Willows
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The Wendigo
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Tales Of The Uncanny And Su...
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The Empty House and Other G...
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1906 — 37 editions
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The Man Whom the Trees Loved
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The Damned
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Pan's Garden
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More books by Algernon Blackwood…
“Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.”
Algernon Blackwood

“To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!"
Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.”
Algernon Blackwood, The Complete John Silence Stories

“No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
walls of memory.”
Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland

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