Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows," which Lovecraft singled out as "the single finest weird tale in literature" "The Wendigo" "The Insanity of Jones" and "Sand."įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Born in London in 1869, Blackwood began publishing ghost stories in 1906 and became a prolific writer, as well as a journalist and radio broadcaster. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. 'Best Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood' is a collection of frightening tales by one of the greatest British writers of supernatural fiction of the twentieth century. By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Algernon Blackwoods dark tale is read in 4-parts by Philip Madoc.
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