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  <title><![CDATA[Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;If a ghost is seen, what &lt;I&gt;is&lt;/I&gt; it interests me less than than what &lt;I&gt;sees&lt;/I&gt; it?&quot; Thus Algernon Blackwood describes his fascination with human beings' ability to sense invisible powers and stirrings in the universe, a fascination he developed most famously in his stories about mystical, ineffable encounters with nature. This collection, selected by renowned scholar of the supernatural, E. F. Bleiler, is an excellent sample of Blackwood's work, including 12 of his best ghost stories and a crime story as well. Blackwood is acknowledged today as the author who made the ghost story into a respectable literary form.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1911</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terrific collection of Blackwood's best-known tales, including &quot;The Willows&quot; and &quot;The Wendigo.&quot;  Calling these thirteen tales &quot;ghost stories&quot; may be something of a misnomer, as Blackwood is hard to classify -- perhaps &quot;supernatural tale&quot; would be more appropri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3911307">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book because I had read, more than once, that &quot;The Willows&quot; is considered by many to be the best ghost story ever written. I'm not sure that I would agree. A well-written tale that had me feeling a little &quot;edgy&quot; at times, it didn't really sustain itself for me. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9687977">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 23 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of these tales simply didn't age well, but that is not the case with Blackwood's two classics, &quot;The Willows&quot; and &quot;The Wendigo,&quot; both of which have lost none of their fearful, imaginative power.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Five stars for &quot;The Willows&quot; and &quot;The Wendigo,&quot; docked one star because I can't remember a single thing about any of the other stories five years after reading them. ]]></body>
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    <review id="11011790">
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 25 20:46:40 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Creepy. Master of atmosphere. Guy can spook with a phrase.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's really hard to beat a Blackwood ghost story.]]></body>
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    <review id="8985231">
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    <body><![CDATA[Simple, detailed, awesome horror.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Stuffy, but very good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['Tis the season...]]></body>
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