ancient sorceries and other weird stories

I picked up this collection of Blackwood’s stories in desperate need of some short fiction, preferably of a speculative bent. Blackwood really is brilliant at creating an atmosphere of otherworldly terror and uncanny intrigue.

Lovecraft called Blackwood ‘the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere’, and, for once, this is not a hyperbolic blurb to increase sales. 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.'įor 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. 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.By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood.

Ancient sorceries and other weird stories