Name: The Damned
SKU: 60700824
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Author: Blackwood, Algernon
ISBN: 9781533668950

Type

Physical Book

Author

Algernon Blackwood

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4x17.8x0.4 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781533668950

Synopsis "The Damned"

The DamnedAlgernon BlackwoodAlgernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 - 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "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."His two best known stories are probably "The Willows" and "The Wendigo." He would also often write stories for newspapers at short notice, with the result that he was unsure exactly how many short stories he had written and there is no sure total. Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Good examples are the novels The Centaur, which climaxes with a traveller's sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon and its sequel The Bright Messenger, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution of human consciousness.

Algernon Blackwood

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(United Kingdom, 1869 - 1951). Writer of fantastic tales, journalist, and radio broadcaster. He narrated his own writings on radio and television and wrote an autobiography of his early years. His work, The Willows, is considered one of the best horror stories in history. He was a major influence on H.P. Lovecraft, who described him as "the unquestionable and absolute master of spectral atmosphere".

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