However, the English writer is a master of creating a monumentally menacing atmosphere, and he uses this particular strength well here. Blackwood does incorporate many of the usual horror traits that go along with such a story mounting up the tension with each creek and thump within the house. And it’s been waiting.īlackwood utilises a classic (and quite simplistic) supernatural horror story idea, this time with the premise of a ‘Haunted House’. For within the cold uncaring walls of the empty house a supernatural presence has manifested itself. They should have listened to their inner voice.
But their inherent fears of such an abandoned property turn out to be well warranted.
They choose the middle of the night to undertake their brave exploration of the empty property. Soon enough the two of them go and explore an empty house that has been left deserted in the middle of the street. The Empty House - Written in 1906 (Taken from the book 'The Empty House') – 23 pagesĪ young man named Shorthouse decides to pay his Aunt Julia a weekend visit. The collection has since been reprinted a number of times over the years, no doubt due to it containing six of Blackwood’s more popular shorts. 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.First published back in 1968, the Algernon Blackwood collection ‘Ancient Sorceries And Other Stories’ brought together six previously published short stories for the first time in this particular collection. 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.＂ For 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.
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood.
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