Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century". The Centaur, " The Willows", " The Wendigo"Īlgernon 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.
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Recent Updates and Currently Reading | October 28. It's also available on Project Gutenberg and other places you can typically find these old classics. I was able to get my copy of The Willows free in the Kindle store. I can't wait to dive into more of Blackwood's work in the future. The build up of tension (not to mention the personification of nature) made this an awesome read for me. In The Willows, two friends are taking a canoe trip up the river, and the rough water forces them stop for the night on an island among the willow trees. I don't know how that influenced their writing, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless. What I found was Blackwood and Wells were friends. So much so that as soon as I finished reading The Willows I did a search to see if there were any essays comparing their work. What struck me while reading The Willows was how much Blackwood's writing reminded me of H.G. I wasn't planning to review The Willows, but it turned out to be such an awesome read I decided it really needed to be shared. I've been sharing my journey with Lovecraft lately, but the story that brought me back to Lovecraft was Algernon Blackwood's The Willows. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction. 
Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is one of Algernon Blackwood's best known short stories. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which "moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible."
Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment-river, sun, wind-and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River.
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