Algernon Blackwood
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A beautifully produced new edition of Blackwood’s weirdest supernatural stories, including “The Willows,” highlighted by H.P. Lovecraft as "the single finest weird tale in literature”
Lauded as one of our greatest storytellers, and inspiring generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Tolkien to Stephen King, Algernon Blackwood left a legacy as one of Britain's greatest conjurors of weird and supernatural stories....
Lauded as one of our greatest storytellers, and inspiring generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Tolkien to Stephen King, Algernon Blackwood left a legacy as one of Britain's greatest conjurors of weird and supernatural stories....
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Table of Contents:
Jimbo: A Fantasy
The Education of Uncle Paul
The Human Chord
The Centaur
A Prisoner in Fairyland: Sequel to The Education of Uncle Paul
The Extra Day
Julius LeVallon
The Wave
The Promise of Air
The Garden of Survival
The Bright Messenger, Sequel to Julius LeVallon.
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"The Willows" is one of Algernon Blackwood's best known and creepiest stories. Many say it is his best and scariest. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. He wrote in his treatise "Supernatural Horror in Literature", "Here art and restraint in narrative reach their very highest development, and an impression of lasting poignancy is produced without a single strained passage or...
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Un grupo de cazadores que se adentran en un valle remoto y desconocido, uno de los cazadores se adentra en un lugar que llaman el Valle de las bestias, mientras persigue a un enorme ciervo, donde descubre que los animales se comportan de manera distinta bajo la protección de un dios local y que él mismo empezará a cambiar.
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Algernon Henry Blackwood (March 14, 1869 - December 10, 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The following recording includes the short stories, "The Olive" and "Ancient Lights."
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She appeared to have wings, which hummed in their furious movement; she was red in the face, her eyes burned; she grinned at me and ground her little teeth together. A curious shrill noise came from her, like the screaming of a gnat or hoverfly; but no words, never any words.
Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls, pulp magazines, and other darkly inventive publications have produced a dread allure across the world, infiltrating culture and influencing...
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Content:
Edgar Allan Poe:
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
The Black Cat...
Henry James:
The Turn of the Screw
The Ghostly Rental...
H. P. Lovecraft:
The Dunwich Horror
The Shunned House...
Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein
The Mortal Immortal
The Evil Eye...
John William Polidori:
The Vampyre
Bram Stoker:
Dracula
The Jewel of Seven Stars
The Lair of the White Worm...
Algernon Blackwood:
The Willows
A Haunted Island
A Case of Eavesdropping
Ancient...
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Musaicum Books presents to you a collection of the greatest horror, supernatural and gothic tales of all time:
Washington Irving:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Théophile Gautier:
Clarimonde
The Mummy's Foot
Richard Marsh:
The Beetle
H. P. Lovecraft:
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
At The Mountains of Madness
The Colour out of Space
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Dunwich Horror
The Shunned House...
Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein
The Mortal Immortal
The Evil...
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"Famous Modern Ghost Stories" by Edgar Allan Poe, Anatole France, Richard Le Gallienne, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, Arthur Machen, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Fitz James O'Brien, Robert W. Chambers, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Olivia Howard Dunbar, William Fryer Harvey, Myla Jo Closser. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics...
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This recording is the second in a new series featuring some of the greatest crime stories ever written. The Perfect Crime is written in the first person: I know I committed the perfect crime. Phoebe Wallowes, a well educated American woman, really irritates him. He also has a genuine terror that she will one day marry him. Something therefore has to be done. Sapper's Thirteen Lead Soldiers has an ingenious plot to murder Conte de Dinard at a secret...