Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951)
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Werke von Algernon Blackwood
The Whisperers and Other Stories: A Lifetime of the Supernatural (British Library Hardback Classics) (2022) 16 Exemplare
The Willows, The Wendigo and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood: Annotated… (2015) 11 Exemplare
Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80 Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost… (2015) 9 Exemplare
Selected short stories of Algernon Blackwood: (ghost and supernatural stories) (Armed Services edition) (1943) 6 Exemplare
10 Extreme Ghost Stories For Hardcore Horror Fans Only Illustrated (Ghost Stories & Hauntings) (2009) 5 Exemplare
The listener,: And other stories 4 Exemplare
Full circle 4 Exemplare
A Little Black Book of Bedevilment 3 Exemplare
The Listener 3 Exemplare
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 002 3 Exemplare
Contos de Algernon Blackwood 3 Exemplare
The Goblin's Collection 2 Exemplare
Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows" and Other Tales of Terror: Premium Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories (2014) 2 Exemplare
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 010 2 Exemplare
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 013 2 Exemplare
Il vecchio delle visioni: romanzi e racconti 2 Exemplare
Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday 2 Exemplare
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 004 2 Exemplare
LibriVox Ghost Story Collection 001 2 Exemplare
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 003 2 Exemplare
John Silence, nouvelles : La Némésis du feu - Une invasion psychique - Culte secret (1993) 2 Exemplare
Kamer te huur en andere griezelverhalen 2 Exemplare
A Case of Eavesdropping [short fiction] 2 Exemplare
The JOHN SILENCE SERIES - Complete Collection: A Psychical Invasion Ancient Sorceries The Nemesis of Fire Secret… (2019) 1 Exemplar
JOHN SILENCE SERIES - Complete Collection: A Psychical Invasion Ancient Sorceries The Nemesis of Fire Secret Worship… (2015) 1 Exemplar
The Wendigo and Other Haunting Tales 1 Exemplar
Lure of the Unknown 1 Exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 072 1 Exemplar
A Wendigo és más furcsa mesék 1 Exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 036 1 Exemplar
Ghost Stories 1 Exemplar
The Collected Shorter Supernatural & Weird Fiction of Algernon Blackwood Volume 4: Twenty-Nine Short Stories of the… (2023) 1 Exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 029 1 Exemplar
The Complete Works of Algernon Blackwood 1 Exemplar
Algernon Blackwood Classics Collection: The Wendigo, The Willows, The Centaur, Incredible Adventures, The Empty House… (2021) 1 Exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 065 1 Exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 067 1 Exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059 1 Exemplar
Ciemne Strony 1 Exemplar
Migrations 1 Exemplar
Az elhagyott ház és más rémtörténetek 1 Exemplar
PREMIUM Collection - The Greatest Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood: (10 Best Supernatural & Fantasy Tales) The Empty… (2015) 1 Exemplar
Initiation 1 Exemplar
The Old Man of Visions {short story} 1 Exemplar
Kamer te huur 1 Exemplar
13 Tales of Terror 1 Exemplar
Discesa in Egitto 1 Exemplar
The Works of Algernon Blackwood 1 Exemplar
Colui che ascoltava nel buio 1 Exemplar
Mr. Cupboard 1 Exemplar
Algernon Blackwood. [Short stories] 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen by Edward Gorey (1959) — Mitwirkender — 673 Exemplare
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Mitwirkender — 194 Exemplare
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Mitwirkender — 184 Exemplare
Dracula's Brood: Vampire Classics by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M.R. James and Others (1987) — Mitwirkender — 171 Exemplare
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Mitwirkender — 78 Exemplare
Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places (Adrenaline) (1999) — Mitwirkender — 59 Exemplare
Great Weird Tales: 14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen and Others (2011) — Mitwirkender — 57 Exemplare
There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales (2020) — Mitwirkender — 42 Exemplare
Great Horror Stories: Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and Others (2008) — Mitwirkender — 37 Exemplare
Spuk. Eine Anthologie. 13 teuflische Stories über Zauberei, Schwarze Magie und Voodoo. (1968) — Mitwirkender — 35 Exemplare
Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (2021) — Mitwirkender — 32 Exemplare
The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives: 13 Stories of Supernatural Sleuthing (2017) — Mitwirkender — 23 Exemplare
Strange relics : stories of archaeology and the supernatural, 1895-1954 (2022) — Mitwirkender — 16 Exemplare
The Dead Valley And Others H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Horror Stories Volume 2 (2016) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare
Homefront Horrors: Frights Away from the Front Lines, 1914-1918 (2016) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites: 44 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Fantastisia kertomuksia : antologia 11 Exemplare
Giving Up the Ghosts: Short-Lived Occult Detective Series by Six Renowned Authors (2015) — Autor, einige Ausgaben — 8 Exemplare
Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly Plants in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
Out of the Sand: Mummies, Pyramids, and Egyptology in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Georgian Stories 1924 — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
FANTASY CLASSICS (4) Four: Ancient Sorceries; The Vanguard of Venus; A Hand from the Deep; Dialogue with the Dead (1973) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Millemondi Inverno 1994 : 1 romanzo e 11 racconti — Autor — 2 Exemplare
About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Cats of Shadow, Claws of Darkness: Stories of Were-Cats, Ghost Cats, and Other Supernatural Felines (2012) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 3, September 1938 — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Invertebrata Enigmatica: Giant Spiders, Dangerous Insects, and Other Strange Invertebrates in Classic Science Fiction… (2008) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 028 2 Exemplare
Number 12a Joy Street — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Tchnienie Grozy — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Forgotten Fantasy Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Gespenster — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
小説幻妖 壱 (1) 新春 妖女コレクシオン — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Blackwood, Algernon Henry
- Geburtstag
- 1869-03-14
- Todestag
- 1951-12-10
- Begräbnisort
- Cremated
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- England
- Land (für Karte)
- England, UK
- Geburtsort
- Shooter's Hill, Kent, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- Bishopsteighton, Kent, England, UK
- Todesursache
- cerebral thrombosis
- Wohnorte
- London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Ausbildung
- Wellington College
Edinburgh University - Berufe
- author
writer
broadcaster - Organisationen
- Ghost Club Society
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Theosophical Society - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Commander, Order of the British Empire (Commander1949)
Television Society Silver Medal (1948)
Mitglieder
Diskussionen
THE DEEP ONES: "The Heath Fire" by Algernon Blackwood in The Weird Tradition (Januar 15)
THE DEEP ONES: "Roman Remains" by Algernon Blackwood in The Weird Tradition (September 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Wolves of God" by Algernon Blackwood in The Weird Tradition (Januar 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "A Victim of Higher Space" by Algernon Blackwood in The Weird Tradition (Oktober 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "A Touch of Pan" by Algernon Blackwood in The Weird Tradition (Dezember 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood in The Weird Tradition (März 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House" by Algernon Blackwood in The Weird Tradition (April 2015)
Opinions on Algernon Blackwood in Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (Januar 2012)
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I'm sure it's due to some obscure perverseness that I can't consciously pinpoint, but I've never quite warmed up to "The Willows." Despite its esteemed reputation, despite the fact that I've reread it many times during the past thirty-five years in hopes that I would appreciate some nuance which previously had eluded me, I'm left essentially unmoved by the story. With just two characters in a single setting, and action that remains almost entirely ambiguous to the end, it's too spare to justify its length (a little over fifty pages). Not much happens: two outdoorsmen, one of them the story's narrator, are paddling a canoe up the Danube; they make camp on one of the river's numerous small islands, where the willow bushes seem to take on a threatening aspect. Are the willows really occupied/manipulated by some intelligent lifeform from another plane of existence, or are the men so overwhelmed by the loneliness and remoteness of the island that they (one of them, in particular) suffer a psychotic break? It's never made clear. The missing oar, the damage to the canoe and the loss of provisions arguably can be blamed on the narrator's eccentric traveling companion. Even the ghastly corpse that turns up at the end may have been a victim of the Swede.
Here emerges an inescapable parallel with the age-old critical debate over Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw" (which Blackwood greatly admired): is it really a ghost story, or isn't it? But "The Willows" is even less plainly a tale of the supernatural. Read it carefully and you'll realize how consistent the psychological interpretation is. With a single exception (a visual phenomenon which the narrator witnesses alone, and is easily attributable to imagination), all the strange events of the story could have been wrought by human hands. What "The Willows" is actually about, in my view, is the narrator's dawning realization that his traveling companion is not the stable, unimaginative, trustworthy type he had appeared to be.
I understand the effect that Blackwood was aiming for, but the execution is labored. Again and again, the narrator describes the uncanny atmosphere of the island, the rustling of the willows, the anxiety that overtakes him as escape begins to look impossible...and the more he describes it, the less I'm able to feel it. Blackwood is too insistent, and because the story is so long yet so lacking in substance, he has no choice but to go on insisting. All that the narrator can do is sit around and wait for something bad to happen. It just doesn't work for me. I'm not sure how "The Willows" came to be regarded as the greatest horror story in the English language; I'll take Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan" (which is, unambiguously and unapologetically, a horror story) any day of the week. And this, I assure you, is coming from someone who admires much of Algernon Blackwood's work. He conveyed an atmosphere of supernatural wonder far more effectively in "Ancient Sorceries," and of creeping dread and horror in "The Occupant of the Room."… (mehr)