When John Mason first meets Julius LeVallon at school, he feels an immediate connection. They had known each other beforenot in this lifetime, but many lifetimes before. LeVallon introduces his young friend to a much larger world, the world of feeling-wit...
Algernon Blackwood spent the first half of 1909 traveling around Switzerland. When he returned to England, he produced around twenty stories, most of which formed the basis for his next collection, The Lost Valley, published by Eveleigh Nash in June, 1910...
Those who are acquainted with Blackwoods work will know that he did not write simple ghost stories. From his childhood Blackwood had a love for the natural world and for much of his life, whenever he could, he would escape the city and the town and take...
Algernon Blackwoodâs The Willows, The Wendigo, and Four Weird Tales-The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand-with an afterword by Catherine Mintz.
The WillowsTwo friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment - river, sun, wind - and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are...
Algernon Blackwood, one of the greatest masters of weird fiction in literary history. There is an extraordinary unity in the work of this great author. All his books deal with the strange, supernatural, terror, macabre, other-worldly. This nice collection...