Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales

Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026843649
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: "Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories. His most work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Blackwood's best known stories are "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". Contents: The Willows The Insanity of Jones Ancient Sorceries The Man Who Found Out The Wendigo The Glamour of the Snow The Man Whom the Trees Loved Sand

Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781420933680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
'Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories' is a collection of supernatural stories by one of the greatest writers of such stories to have ever lived, Algernon Blackwood. This collection contains the title story, 'Ancient Sorceries', which is the tale of a tourist who becomes enchanted by a strange French town and the ancient secrets that are hidden there. Also included in this collection is one of Blackwood's most celebrated stories, 'The Willows', the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night.

Ancient Sorceries

Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465601686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77

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Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales

Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101157151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. 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. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.

Ancient sorceries

Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales: Supernatural Stories: The Willows, The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Wendigo, The Glamour of the Sn

Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: E-Artnow
ISBN: 9788027331024
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Table of Contents: - Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories. His most work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Blackwood's best known stories are "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". - Contents: - The Willows - The Insanity of Jones - Ancient Sorceries - The Man Who Found Out - The Wendigo - The Glamour of the Snow - The Man Whom the Trees Loved - Sand

American Supernatural Tales

Author: S. T. Joshi
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143122371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513

Book Description
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. The book celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and—of course—Stephen King. This volumes also includes "The Yellow Sign," the most horrific story from The King in Yellow, the classic horror collection by Robert W. Chambers featured on HBO's hit TV series True Detective. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good collection of stories. Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short story “Sardonicus,” considered by Stephen King to be “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,” to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.

Ancient Sorceries, Deluxe Edition

Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782278516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
A beautifully produced new edition of Blackwood’s weirdest supernatural stories, including “The Willows,” highlighted by H.P. Lovecraft as "the single finest weird tale in literature” Lauded as one of our greatest storytellers, and inspiring generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Tolkien to Stephen King, Algernon Blackwood left a legacy as one of Britain's greatest conjurors of weird and supernatural stories. Blackwood’s inimitable style puts readers right in the middle of the story, with visceral and nature-inspired fear that lies just beyond the real, often in the form of a nameless dread. This beautifully produced edition, with a stunning cover and thoughtful design and layout to ensure the most enjoyable reading experience, features four of his most unnervingly curious tales: Ancient Sorceries--a traveller stops in a remote French hill town and soon finds himself unable to leave; there is something strangely feline about the inhabitants, he notices, and they all seem to be watching him very closely… The Listener--a lodging house guest feels himself observed by a malevolent presence. Soon it transpires his room’s previous occupant is watching him from beyond the grave, and is envious of the very flesh on his bones. The Sea Fit--an old retired ship’s captain’s ravings build to a terrifying climax, as he offers himself up as a sacrifice to the cruel gods of the sea. The Willows--two friends on a canoeing trip spend a terrifying night on a lonely willow-covered island, haunted by the strange trees and sinister shapes in the water.

Ancient Sorceries and Other Chilling Tales

Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: Capuchin Classics
ISBN: 9781907429859
Category : Horror tales, English.orror tales, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Blackwood was a writer of great distinction - his narratives were not so much ghost stories as psychic adventures, his characters standing on the brink of alternative, sometimes frightening worlds: two campers find themselves staying in an eerie locale, impinged on by another dimension; a tourist returning from a trip becomes too enchanted with a strange French town and its people to leave; a member of a hunting party is abducted in the Canadian wilderness. Mysterious and unsettling, his stories have the capacity to invoke genuine fear in the reader. Collected here are seven of his best, including The Willows - perhaps Blackwood's most celebrated story, and considered to be one of the finest supernatural tales in English literature - and The Wendigo another undisputed masterpiece. This collection confirms Algernon Blackwood as one of the modern geniuses of supernatural fiction.