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Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

By Algernon Blackwood
Introduction by S. T. Joshi
Notes by S. T. Joshi

By Algernon Blackwood
Introduction by S. T. Joshi
Notes by S. T. Joshi

By Algernon Blackwood
Introduction by S. T. Joshi
Notes by S. T. Joshi

By Algernon Blackwood
Introduction by S. T. Joshi
Notes by S. T. Joshi

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    About Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

    By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood’s writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. 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.”

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.

    About Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

    By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood’s writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. 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.”

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.

    About Algernon Blackwood

    ALGERNON BLACKWOOD (1869-1951) was an English broadcaster, journalist, and author who wrote (and narrated over the radio and television) some of the most prolific ghost stories in the history of the genre. A lover of nature with a lifelong interest… More about Algernon Blackwood

    About Algernon Blackwood

    ALGERNON BLACKWOOD (1869-1951) was an English broadcaster, journalist, and author who wrote (and narrated over the radio and television) some of the most prolific ghost stories in the history of the genre. A lover of nature with a lifelong interest… More about Algernon Blackwood

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Classic Fiction | Short Stories | Fantasy

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Aug 27, 2002 | 400 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780142180150

    Category: Literary Fiction | Classic Fiction | Short Stories | Fantasy

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Aug 27, 2002 | 400 Pages | ISBN 9781101157152

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    Praise

    “Of the quality of Mr Blackwood’s genius there can be no dispute; for no one has ever approached the skill, seriousness, and minute fidelity whith which he records the overtones of strangeness in ordinary things and experiences.”
    —H.P. Lovecraft

    “To many, including H.P. Lovecraft, ‘The Willows’ is the finest story in the canon of supernatural fiction. (…) Blackwood himself is, arguably, the central figure in the British supernatural literature of the twentieth century.”
    —Michael Dirda, New York Review of Books

    Table Of Contents

    Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird StoriesIntroduction by S. T. Joshi
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    A Note on the Text
    Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House
    The Willows
    The Insanity of Jones
    Ancient Sorceries
    The Man Who Found Out
    The Wendigo
    The Glamour of the Snow
    The Man Whom the Trees Loved
    Sand

    Explanatory Notes

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