ancient sorceries and other weird stories

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. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.＂ For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood’s writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror.

Lovecrafts The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwoods Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002). Algernon Blackwood was well-regarded in life as a master of short and unsettling horror tales, with their quality remaining undimmed with age.By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Storiesshowcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. As well as the 'weird' fiction for which he was famed, Blackwood would also write ordinary stories and tales aimed at younger audiences. Together with strange and frightening tales, he was an enthusiastic author of essays and plays. Lovecraft (who himself termed Blackwood a 'master' of the craft of supernatural storytelling) and other horror authors. The author's stories exerted an enormous influence on H.P. Blackwood's deft use of ambiguous endings leave the reader to interpret what may have happened.

Intertwining the supernatural and unexplained into a series of compelling narratives, the reader is left confused, scared and thrilled by the bizarre occurrences that puzzle, traumatize and terrify his characters. Sell, buy or rent Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 9780142180150 0142180157, we buy used or new for best. Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics) de Blackwood, Algernon en - ISBN 10: 0142180157 - ISBN 13: 9780142180150 - PENGUIN GROUP - 2002 - Tapa blanda. Algernon Blackwood's spooky stories remain as dark, chilling and readable today as the time they were first published at the beginning of the 20th century.

Ancient sorceries and other weird stories