Algernon Blackwood

Broschiertes Buch

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories / The Listener and Other Stories

Beschreibung

"He had always been tremblingly aware that he stood on the borderland of another region, a region where time and space were merely forms of thought, where ancient memories lay open to the sight, and where the forces behind each human life stood plainly revealed, and he could see the hidden springs at the very heart of the world."-Algernon Blackwood, from "The Insanity of Jones" The Empty Room and Other Ghost Stories is Algernon Blackwood's first collected work, ten original stories submitted by an old friend of Blackwood's, who thought so highly of them that he sent them to a new publisher by the name of Eveleigh Nash. Nash was so impressed, he offered Blackwood an immediate advance and brought the stories out to the British public that same year in 1906. Filled with chilling, unsettling and unnerving tales of ghostly visitations, The Empty Room serves as the perfect introduction to the world of Blackwood. But it wasn't until The Listener and Other Stories, his second collection, was published by Nash in 1907 that the true brilliance of this master storyteller was revealed to the reading public. Here you will find the otherworldly stories for which Blackwood is best known, true nightmares of supernatural fiction: "The Listener," "Max Hensig," "The Insanity of Jones," the poignant "The Dance of Death"…and, of course, his classic, "The Willows," in which two men on a boat trip down the Danube discover that there are more things in Nature than Man should ever know.

Autor

Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 - 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's."[1] and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century. Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (now part of south-east London, then part of north-west Kent). Between 1871 and 1880, he lived at Crayford Manor House, Crayford[3] and he was educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas."[4] After he read the work of a Hindu sage left behind at his parents' house, he developed an interest in Buddhism and other eastern philosophies.[5] Blackwood had a varied career, working as a dairy farmer in Canada, where he also operated a hotel for six months, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, bartender, model, journalist for The New York Times, private secretary, businessman, and violin teacher.[6] Throughout his adult life, he was an occasional essayist for periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and later telling them on radio and television. He also wrote 14 novels, several children's books and a number of plays, most of which were produced, but not published. He was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors, as many of his stories reflect. To satisfy his interest in the supernatural, he joined The Ghost Club. He never married; according to his friends he was a loner, but also cheerful company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stark House Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781087814896
• ISBN-10: 1087814898
• Artikelnr.: 57975655