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Title: Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Algernon Blackwood, S. T. Joshi ISBN: 0-14-218015-7 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The scariest of ghost story writers
Comment: Algernon Blackwood really is the most frightening to me of all horror story writers: he has a way of capturing mood and setting that outdoes any of his many followers (among whom H. P. Lovecraft was proudly one of the most preeminent). The three most famous stories in this book--the title story, "The Wendigo," and above all "The Willows"--emblematize his skill. The title story is set in an ancient French townn where the townspeople seem to have a peculair habit of transforming into something else, and authentically captures the creepiness of medieval towns at night. Even more frightening is "The Wendigo": set in the North Woods, it realizes whatever fears you've ever had walking alone in the snowy woods. "The Willows" was Lovecraft's nomination for the finest horror stopry ever written, and it clearly may have inspired THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT: two canoers traversing through the Middle European forests find themselves stranded on an island by unknown forces that won't let them leave. Part of the pleasure of Blackwood is that he never overdoes it: he has a marvelous light touch, and reads quite crisply at the level of the sentence.
Rating: 4
Summary: master of the setting
Comment: ab is the master of setting. his stories has the most powerful settings. in addition he is the best at describing the conflict between the primal and the modern man. alas, he was never good at endings. some of his stories end will enough, but many a time there is something destroying. the guy decides just to walk away, for example. oh, well
Rating: 4
Summary: "Willows," will unease you!
Comment: -
I was recently directed to an outstanding author, famous for haunting, scary, engrossing stories, whose work I hadn't read before. Algernon Blackwood, is his name, and he was called to my attention by the editor of a White Nationalist web page, who posted "Willows" on his web site as example of excellent White art.
After reading the story, I couldn't get it out of my mind, so I searched the web for information, and ultimately bought this book from Amazon. "Willows," is among the stories collected here, and it is better than most; but, as a whole, the entire book is great entertainment.
Blackwood, has been compared to Edgar Allen Poe, in his ability to create psychological tension, and palpable unease that creeps up on the reader, and remains awhile. There is great subtlety in the author's presentation of Nature and its relationship to Mankind.
There are nine Blackwood stories in this 374 page book, including about twenty five pages of Explanatory Notes, which shed light on the author and the stories. A number of other Blackwood stories are collected in other books, also available at amazon.
A good choice for a rainy night of reading, alone, in an isolated location.
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Title: Best Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood ISBN: 0486229777 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1973 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood ISBN: 1587155443 Publisher: Wildside Pr Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Incredible Adventures by Algernon Blackwood, Tim Lebbon ISBN: 0966784820 Publisher: Stark House Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany, Lin Carter ISBN: 1587157195 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen by Arthur Machen, S. T. Joshi ISBN: 1568821727 Publisher: Chaosium Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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