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Algernon Blackwood

Born

in Shooter's Hill, Kent, England, The United Kingdom

March 14, 1869

Died

December 10, 1951

Genre

Horror, Short Stories, Weird Fiction

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Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas." Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and, throughout his adult life, an occasional essayist for various periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was very successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He al ...more

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Algernon Blackwood’s books

Average rating: 3.91 · 54,042 ratings · 6,098 reviews · 1,091 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Willows 4.07 avg rating — 13,715 ratings — published 1907 — 976 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wendigo 3.81 avg rating — 6,682 ratings — published 1910 — 440 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood by Algernon Blackwood, E.F. Bleiler (Introduction) 4.15 avg rating — 3,083 ratings — published 1973 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Blackwood, S.T. Joshi (Introduction) 4.10 avg rating — 2,158 ratings — published 2001 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories 3.75 avg rating — 1,723 ratings — published 1906 — 682 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Whom the Trees Loved 3.69 avg rating — 830 ratings — published 1912 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete John Silence Stories (John Silence #1-2) by Algernon Blackwood, S.T. Joshi (Editor) 3.97 avg rating — 744 ratings — 128 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Empty House 3.42 avg rating — 474 ratings — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood, 1stworld Library (Editor) 3.48 avg rating — 438 ratings — published 1907 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Damned 3.50 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 1914 — 304 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Algernon Blackwood (?)

“The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.”
― algernon blackwood

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“No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
walls of memory.”
― Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland

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“When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Willows

tags: horror, imagination

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November Short Story/Novella Poll

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov, 16 pages, 1956

48 votes, 26.1%

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, 80 pages, 1977

27 votes, 14.7%

The Hand by Guy de Maupassant, 32 pages, 1875,

27 votes, 14.7%

The 13 Clocks by James Thurber, 129 pages, 1950

22 votes, 12.0%

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov 88 pages, 1864

22 votes, 12.0%

"Girl of the Golden West" as found in After Henry by Joan Didion, 12 +- pages, 1992

17 votes, 9.2%

The Devil's Pool by George Sand, 108 pages, 1846

15 votes, 8.2%

The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood, 6+ pages, 1908

6 votes, 3.3%

184 total votes

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