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
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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.
slavery may individual
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
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.
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.