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    <body><![CDATA[They don't make horror-writers like Algernon Blackwood anymore.  Heck, just look at his <em>name</em> - the guy was born to tell supernatural tales.  No splatterpunk, he - this is the kind of quiet, creep-up-on-you horror that really chills the spine.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here we have a collection of six short stories by the English writer of ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Algernon Blackwood (1869 – 1951). Blackwood was born in Shooter’s Hill, and after attending the University of Edinburgh, he enjoyed a varied life of farming in Canada, operating a hote...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52534376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is only in regards to &quot;Ancient Sorceries&quot;, as I was reading it in another edition not found in the search engine.<br/><br/>As John Silence's participation in the framing story is small at best, and he serves only to pontificate an &quot;explanation&quot; at the end, it's best to jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37456613">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a whole, I enjoyed this book, though some stories much more than others.  Blackwood is often noted in a category also containing H.P. Lovecraft and Arthur Machen, and for good reason.  That's not to say his writing style is overly similar, but all three authors wrote intriguing horror/fantasy sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21631067">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this off some really keen recommendations at Amazon, the majority of which I’m sure were penned by social pariahs living in their folks’ basements, which they’ve befouled with gallons of spilled ginger ale, near-beer, and aqua-lube.  And seeing as I bought the book based on their sound p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15449813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Blackwood is a master weaver of the mysterious and the macabre. There are a few stories in here that are up there with the best short stories I've ever read and are just plain spooky. &quot;The Willows&quot; and &quot;The Wendigo&quot; are awesome. I can't even say Wendigo without getting chills...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10354575">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was rather disappointed in this collection. I like Blackwood's ideas for his stories, but don't much care for his style which involves an immense amount of internalization. As a stylist his stories are much closer to the 'ghost stories' (though these are not ghost stories) of Henry James than M.R....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46175635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Blackwood's not the greatest writer in the world, especially if you read him by himself. Certainly the stories Sand, the Willows, and The Man the Trees Loved are decent enough, but they lack the depths and pace of a good short story. But, if you read him in the context of the Pantheist who followed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26667708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Willows is the creepiest shiver-inducing weird story that contains nothing supernatural, only hinting at it through the hallucinatory play of the protaganists' minds as they cower in fear while camping, terrified by the vegetation.<br/><br/>The other stories are great too. Blackwood is one of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21389974">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Willows&quot; is the best story in the book. It's genuinely eerie and suspenseful. Some of the other stories in here are a bit too ridiculous and fantastic, and do not compare to the subtle and sinister mood that was created in &quot;The Willows&quot;.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read around in here; didn't finish all the stories.  But &quot;The Willows&quot; will change the way you look at camping.  Terrifying author.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You'll never look at willow trees in the same way again, unless you always considered them terribly creepy and actively malefic...weirdo.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well that story (The Willows) was not scary at all. But it was an ok story not something I would read over again though. ]]></body>
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