| The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Classics Contributor(s): Blackwood, Algernon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598188445 ISBN-13: 9781598188448 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: Included in this volume of tales of terror are the classic Blackwood stories, "The Lost Valley," "The Wendigo," "Old Clothes," "Perspective," "The Terror of the Twins," "The Man from the 'Gods, '" "The Man Who Played upon the Leaf," "The Price of Wiggins's Orgy," "Carlton's Drive," and "The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Horror - General |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6" W x 9" (0.74 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Throughout his adult life, Blackwood was an occasional essayist for various periodicals. During his late thirties, he relocated back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually performing by radio and television to tell them. Of Blackwood S. T. Joshi has 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". One of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Blackwood was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blackwood, Algernon: - "Algernon Henry 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. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "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."" |