Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories - (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Algernon Blackwood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, <i>Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories</i> 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. <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>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.<br><b>--H.P. Lovecraft</b> <p/>"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."<br><b>--Michael Dirda, <i>New York Review of Books</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>S. T. Joshi</b> is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft's <b><i>The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories</i></b> (1999), and <b><i>The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories</i></b> (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood's <b><i>Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories</i></b> (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are <b><i>The Weird Tale</i></b> (1990), <b><i>Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination</i></b> (1995), <b><i>H. P. Lovecraft: A Life</i></b> (1996), and <b><i>The Modern Weird Tale</i></b> (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume <b><i>Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature</i></b>. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.
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