Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBEwas an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures"may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 March 1869
leaves scene time vivid
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
discovered improbable spinning tales taste
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
wise children speak
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
soul way infinite
Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.
slavery may individual
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
fall adventure past
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.
wall heart darkness
To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.
stars imagination world
My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.
reality standards proof
I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
imagination darkness way
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.
light preparation world
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
memories wall sight
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.
heart dust long
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
quality sensations
Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.