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* Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction) ó PDF Read by ! Algernon Blackwood eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction) The results are stories that are not only guaranteed to chill, but stories that have something to say to the intelligent reader.. Lovecraft the finest supernatural story — is a typical example of Blackwood's art: slowly and surely Blackwood draws the reader into a world of shadows, nuances, and unearthly terror.Blackwood was also a master at evoking feelings of mysticism and cosmic experience; dealing with such ideas as interpenetrating levels of existence and pantheistic elemental powers,
| Title | : | Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486229777 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
The results are stories that are not only guaranteed to chill, but stories that have something to say to the intelligent reader.. Lovecraft the finest supernatural story — is a typical example of Blackwood's art: slowly and surely Blackwood draws the reader into a world of shadows, nuances, and unearthly terror.Blackwood was also a master at evoking feelings of mysticism and cosmic experience; dealing with such ideas as interpenetrating levels of existence and pantheistic elemental powers, he expanded the content of supernatural literature enormously. 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). But even the more traditional elements of horror stories such as ghosts and haunted houses are handled with such energy and feeling that they rise far above their predecessors.Drawing on serious Oriental thought, modern psychology, and philosophy, Algernon
This collection, selected by renowned scholar of the supernatural, E. F. . Bleiler, is an excellent sample of Blackwood's work, including 12 of his best ghost stories and a crime story as well. Blackwood is acknowledged today as the author who made the ghost story into a respectable literary form. "If a ghost is seen, what is it interests me less than than what sees it?" Thus Algernon Blackwood describes his fascination with human beings' ability to sense invisible powers and stirrings in the universe, a fascination he developed most famously in his stories about mystical, ineffable encounters with nature
"Truly A Blend of Literary Genres" according to Alfredo Torres. The anthology contains strongly atmospheric, imaginative tales by a writer who is shamefully not better known. Rather than call these tales "ghost stories", I would say they are groundbreaking, genre-blurring masterpieces of science fiction and the supernatural.What I found innovative in these stories is that the supernatural element is itself a part of the characters. The integration of the supernatural element into the characters allows them to participate on a new level in the stories. Supernatural phenomena ar. A few thoughts on Algernon Blackwood V. N. Dvornychenko Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was a fascinating writer. Although he wrote in other forms-novels, children stories, and an autobiography, for example-it is his horror/supernatural stories that have most endured. His "The Willows" (included in this anthology) is often singled out as the best English-language supernatural story.His writing career was long, spanning about 1905-1945, with peak productivity about 1910. Because of this long career, his earlier and later works have a noticeably different "feel," the earl. Slow and spooky mrliteral Occasionally, it is nice to buy a book merely on a whim. Prior to reading the Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, I was hardly even familiar with the author, though he was apparently an influential author in the genre. The book was an interesting read, somewhat slow but overall a satisfying experience.Though he wrote in the 1900s, Blackwood had a definite 19th Century style to his narrative, emphasizing description over action and mood over character. This is evident immediately in the first (and longest) st
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