Download or read book The Centaur written by Algernon Blackwood and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Centaur centres on Terence O’Malley, a journalist of mystical temperament who is at odds with the pace and materialism of the modern world, and instead countenances a sense of kinship with the universe. This mystical novel weaves a fascinating tale while, at the same time, making a passionate plea for a lifestyle that is closer to nature.
Download or read book Complete Works of Algernon Blackwood Illustrated written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algernon Henry Blackwood was an English novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The son of a preacher, Blackwood had a life-long interest in the supernatural, the occult, and spiritualism, and firmly believed that humans possess latent psychic powers. Lovecraft wrote about Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerful story "The Willows," which effectively describes another dimension impinging upon our own, was reckoned by Lovecraft to be not only "foremost of all" Blackwood's tales but the best "weird tale" of all time. The Wendigo The Willows John Silence The Wave The Man Whom The Trees Loved The Centaur Jimbo Julius LeVallon The Human Chord The Kit-Bag The Damned and Other Stories The Promise Of Air A Prisoner In Fairyland The Garden of Survival Extra Day The Bright Messenger The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories Four Weird Tales Day And Night Stories Incredible Adventures The Wolves Of God Karma
Download or read book The Willows written by Algernon Blackwood and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the snaking, sinuous Danube River, Algernon Blackwood's tale "The Willows" represents a high point in the development of the horror genre. Indeed, acknowledged master H.P. Lovecraft regarded it as the best supernatural tale ever written. More awe-inspiring and thought-provoking than gory or terrifying, "The Willows" is a must-read for fans of classic ghost stories.
Download or read book A Victim of Higher Space written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and 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".Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and, throughout his adult life, an occasional essayist for various periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was very successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen 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, and many of his stories reflect this. English writer of ghost stories and supernatural fiction, of whom Lovecraft wrote: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerful story "The Willows," which effectively describes another dimension impinging upon our own, was reckoned by Lovecraft to be not only "foremost of all" Blackwood's tales but the best "weird tale" of all time. (Unfortunately, Blackwood, who was familiar with Lovecraft's work, failed to return the compliment. As he told Peter Penzoldt, he found "spiritual terror" missing in his young admirer's writing, something he considered all-important in his own.) Among his thirty-odd books, Blackwood wrote a series of stories and short novels published as John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908), which featured a "psychic detective" who combined the skills of a Sherlock Holmes and a psychic medium. Blackwood also wrote light fantasy and juvenile books. The son of a preacher, Blackwood had a life-long interest in the supernatural, the occult, and spiritualism, and firmly believed that humans possess latent psychic powers. The autobiography Episodes Before Thirty (1923) tells of his lean years as a journalist in New York. In the late 1940s, Blackwood had a television program on the BBC on which he read . . . ghost stories!
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood Illustrated written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 2897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Master of the Supernatural, Algernon Blackwood was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. This comprehensive eBook presents the collected works of Algernon Blackwood, numerous illustrations, rare tales appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, Blackwood’s post-1925 works cannot appear in this edition. The Novels Jimbo (1909) The Education of Uncle Paul (1909) The Human Chord (1910) The Centaur (1911) A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913) Julius Le Vallon (1916) The Wave (1916) The Promise of Air (1918) The Garden of Survival (1918) The Bright Messenger (1921) The Children’s Novel The Extra Day (1915) The Short Story Collections The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories (1906) The Listener and Other Stories (1907) John Silence (1908) The Lost Valley and Other Stories (1910) Pan’s Garden (1912) Ten Minute Stories (1914) Incredible Adventures (1914) Day and Night Stories (1917) Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories (1921) Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches (1924) Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Play Karma (1918) The Autobiography Episodes before Thirty (1923)
Download or read book A Firefly Named Torchy written by Bernard Waber and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little firefly is unhappy because his light is so bright all the plants and animals think it is daytime.
Download or read book The Adventures of Andy Aardvark written by James Charlton and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Andy Aardvark was scared. Seriously scared. In the pale moonlight out on the African savvanah, digging into the tall termite mound. There it was.” Andy is an aardvark who lives in Africa, in an earth burrow on the edge of the savannah. He is a shy little fellow and forages for his food at night in anthills and termite mounds. When Andy awakens from his daytime sleep a letter has been delivered from a long lost aunt in Brazil. They are the giant anteater branch of the family. Her son Albert has been kidnapped and sent to a zoo near to Andy in Africa. Aunt Alice asks for his help to rescue her son and bring him to safety. Andy decides he must travel to the zoo and somehow rescue Albert. He feels that he needs help and resolves to ask his good friend Walter Warthog to come with him. Walter is a fine strapping fellow with impressive tusks and will be ideal protection from any danger. Will Andy and Walter be successful and rescue Albert, or will they encounter danger along the way?
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Download or read book The Willows the Wendigo and Other Horrors written by Algernon Blackwood and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated and annotated edition of Blackwood's most influential and mesmerizing weird fiction, ghost stories, and strange tales is the only one of its kind available on the market. Richly annotated, bolstered with introductory essays for each story, and complete with chilling chiaroscuro illustrations, it presents a treasure trove to the ardent Blackwoodian. Welcomed by many as the most skillful practitioner of the British weird tale, Algernon Blackwood was capable of simultaneously creating a misanthropic, Lovecraftian cosmos devoid of compassion for petty, materialistic mankind, and a transcendental, Emersonian universe, pregnant with spirituality and wonder. At once horrifying and fantastical, chilling and euphoric, Blackwood's poetic prose and undisputed mastery of psychological terror make him an unavoidable giant in the realms of weird fiction, fantasy, and horror.
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Download or read book Incredible Adventures written by Algernon Blackwood and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are stories steeped in the majesty and mystery of nature. You don't read them - you fall into them, as into a dream. Lulled into a false sense of security, you discover you are no longer within comfortable boundaries. Your eyes have been opened to a larger world. You are about to embark on an incredible adventure...
Download or read book Short Stories of To day and Yesterday written by Ernest Bramah and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1929.
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