Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood

by Algernon Blackwood

Collected works of one of the most prolific writers of ghost/horror stories in the history of the genre.

Novels:

Jimbo: A Fantasy
The Education of Uncle Paul
The Human Chord
The Centaur
A Prisoner in Fairyland: Sequel to The Education of Uncle Paul
The Extra Day
Julius LeVallon
The Wave
The Promise of Air
The Garden of Survival
The Bright Messenger (sequel to Julius LeVallon).

Short story collections:

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories:
- The Empty House
- A Haunted Island
- A Case of Eavesdropping
- Keeping His Promise
- With Intent to Steal
- The Wood of the Dead
- Smith: an Episode in a Lodging-House
- A Suspicious Gift
- The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York
- Skeleton Lake: an Episode in Camp.

The Listener and Other Stories:
- The Listener
- Max Hensing - Bacteriologist and Murderer
- The Willows
- The Insanity of Jones
- The Dance of Death
- May Day Eve
- Miss Slumbubble – and Claustrophobia.

John Silence:
- A Psychical Invasion
- Ancient Sorceries
- The Nemesis of Fire
- Secret Worship
- The Camp of the Dog
- A Victim of Higher Space.

The Lost Valley and Other Stories:
- The Lost Valley
- The Wendigo
- Old Clothes
- Perspective
- The Terror of the Twins
- The Man from the ‘Gods’
- The Man Who Played Upon The Leaf
- The Price of Wiggins’s Orgy
- Carlton’s Drive
- The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute.

Pan’s Garden: a Volume of Nature Stories:
- The Man Whom The Trees Loved
- The South Wind
- The Sea Fit
- The Attic
- The Heath Fire
- The Messenger
- The Glamour of the Snow
- The Return
- Sand
- The Transfer
- Clairvoyance
- The Golden Fly
- Special Delivery
- The Destruction of Smith
- The Temptation of the Clay.

Incredible Adventures:
- The Regeneration of Lord Ernie
- The Sacrifice
- The Damned
- A Descent Into Egypt
- Wayfarers.

Day and Night Stories:
- The Tryst
- The Touch of Pan
- The Wings of Horus
- Initiation
- A Desert Episode
- The Other Wing
- The Occupant of the Room
- Cain’s Atonement
- An Egyptian Hornet
- By Water
- H. S. H.
- A Bit of Wood
- A Victim of Higher Space
- Transition
- The Tradition.

Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories:
- The Wolves of God
- Chinese Magic
- Running Wolf
- First Hate
- The Tarn of Sacrifice
- The Valley of the Beasts
- The Call
- Egyptian Sorcery
- The Decoy
- The Man Who Found Out (A Nightmare)
- The Empty Sleeve
- Wireless Confusion
- Confession
- The Lane That Ran East and West
- "Vengeance is Mine”.

Play:

Karma: a reincarnation play in prologue, epilogue and three acts.

Genres: Horror, Short Stories

5581 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 28, 2015

About the author

Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869–1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".

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 also wrote fourteen novels, several children's books, and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors, and many of his stories reflect this.

H.P. Lovecraft wrote of Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerful story "The Willows," which effectively describes another dimension impinging upon our own, was reckoned by Lovecraft to be not only "foremost of all" Blackwood's tales but the best "weird tale" of all time.

Among his thirty-odd books, Blackwood wrote a series of stories and short novels published as John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908), which featured a "psychic detective" who combined the skills of a Sherlock Holmes and a psychic medium. Blackwood also wrote light fantasy and juvenile books.