Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), «cuya voluminosa obra se encuentra entre las más bellas de la literatura espectral de todos los tiempos», según Lovecraft, «es el maestro absoluto e indiscutible de la

Reconocido maestro de la moderna narrativa fantástica y de terror, Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) supo compaginar su atracción por la mística y el ocultismo con su amor por la naturaleza. Autor de re

13 great stories by foremost British 20th-century supernaturalist. "The Willows," "The Wendigo," "Ancient Sorceries," others.

Welcome to the casebook of Dr John Silence Physician Extraordinary After a long and severe training five years he was gone from the face of the earth travelling who knows where Silence returned to England as the greatest occult detective of the age When he takes up an investigation when he comes to the aid of some poor frightened soul you can be sure it will lead to the most strange and terrifying of circumstances from pagan magic in remote France to battles with ancient Egyptian fire spirits and from geometry defying alternate dimensions to the most macabre of haunted houses Some of the first works written by Algernon Blackwood one of the twentieth century s greatest ghost story writers these John Silence tales are a visionary blend of horror fantasy and science fiction and remain today as some of pinnacle achievements of Weird Fiction

El éxito de John Silence, el personaje más misterioso de la ficción moderna, según eslogan publicitario de la época, se debe en buena medida a la habilidad de Blackwood para combinar y dosificar una trama de suspense detectivesco con elementos de horror sobrenatural que convierten a su personaje en el patron de los cazafantasmas modernos.

"If a ghost is seen, what is it interests me less than than what sees it?" Thus Algernon Blackwood describes his fascination with human beings' ability to sense invisible powers and stirrings in the universe, a fascination he developed most famously in his stories about mystical, ineffable encounters with nature. This collection, selected by renowned scholar of the supernatural, E. F. Bleiler, is an excellent sample of Blackwood's work, including 12 of his best ghost stories and a crime story as well. Blackwood is acknowledged today as the author who made the ghost story into a respectable literary form.

"El bienamado de los árboles y El Wendigo son dos de las piezas que dieron fama al aventurero y mago del terror del siglo XX y que incluimos en esta edición inédita en castellano. «El señor Blackwoo

'Back from the shouting floor and ceiling came the chorus of images that stormed and clamoured for expression. Jones lay still and listened; he let them come. There was nothing else to do.' Algernon Blackwood was one of the most influential writers of twentieth-century weird and supernatural fiction. He once told a correspondent that every story he wrote was based on either a personal experience or that of someone he knew, and thus the vast collection of short stories and novels published in his lifetime can be seen to form a kind of autobiography. In this collection of his most atmospheric and uneasy tales, Mike Ashley provides the facts of Blackwood's life which inspired each story - including experiences as an intelligence agent in the First World War and adventures in New York - to tell the parallel tale of the author's lifetime of the supernatural.

A British traveller in France stops in a remote French hill town with some very unusual inhabitants and soon finds himself unable to leave; a scholar staying in a lodging house feels himself observed by a malevolent presence; two friends on a canoeing trip spend a night on a lonely willow-covered island in the middle of the Danube, haunted by the strange trees and sinister shapes in the waterAlgernon Blackwood is one of Britains greatest ever proponents of weird and supernatural stories. This collection contains four of his most unnervingly curious tales: Ancient Sorceries, The Listener, The Sea Fit and The Willows.

One of the most famous ghost stories, Blackwoods The Empty House is a classic haunted house tale of terror. Now with a new introduction and biography.Algernon Blackwood, one of the founding fathers of modern ghost and horror stories, inspired generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Shirley Jackson and our very own Ramsey Campbell. Blackwoods The Empty House is one of the most famous haunted house stories in the English language, with its carefully crafted gathering of tension and dread inference of terrors lurking at the end of every corridor, around every corner, through every half-opened door. This edition includes A Haunted Island, The Wood of the Dead, Skeleton Lake and several other ghoulish tales.FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. Each book features a brand new biography and a new glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms.

Welcome to the casebook of Dr John Silence, Physician Extraordinary. After a long and severe training five years he was gone from the face of the earth, travelling who knows where Silence returned to England as the greatest occult detective of the age. When he takes up an investigation, when he comes to the aid of some poor, frightened soul, you can be sure it will lead to the most strange and terrifying of circumstances: from pagan magic in remote France to battles with ancient Egyptian fire spirits, and from geometry defying alternate dimensions to the most macabre of haunted houses.Some of the first works written by Algernon Blackwood one of the twentieth centurys greatest ghost story writers these John Silence tales are a visionary blend of horror, fantasy and science fiction, and remain today as some of pinnacle achievements of Weird Fiction.

Considéré par Lovecraft comme son égal, célébré pendant des décennies comme l’un des maîtres du fantastique, Algernon Blackwood n’a pas en France le public qu’il mérite. La richesse de son œuvre, la

Considéré par Lovecraft comme son égal, célébré pendant des décennies comme l’un des maîtres du fantastique, Algernon Blackwood n’a pas en France le public qu’il mérite. La richesse de son œuvre, la