Dover Mystery Detective & Other Fiction: Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (Paperback)

Thirteen stories including The Willows -- acclaimed by Lovecraft as the finest supernatural story ever written -- The Wendigo Ancient Sorceries and others. Includes an introduction by E. F. Bleiler. A woman of snow . . . a midnight caller keeping his promise . . . forests where Nature is deliberate and malefic . . . enchanted houses . . . these are the beings and ideas that flood through this collection of ghost stories by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Altogether thirteen stories gathered from the entire corpus of Blackwood s work are included: stories of such sheer power and imagination that it is easy to see why he has been considered the foremost British supernaturalist of the twentieth century. Blackwood s ability to create an atmosphere of unrelieved horror and sustain it to the end of the story is almost unsurpassed. The Willows -- which has been called by H. P. Lovecraft the finest supernatural story -- is a typical example of Blackwood s art: slowly and surely Blackwood draws the reader into a

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