Name: The Willows
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Author: Blackwood, Algernon
ISBN: 9781983499784

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Author

Algernon Blackwood

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

102

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 0.5 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN13

9781983499784

Synopsis "The Willows"

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment-river, sun, wind-and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which "moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible." "The Willows" is one of Algernon Blackwood's best known short stories. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.

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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