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"And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint."
~ Algernon Blackwood, born today, 1869.
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My copy of the 1938 Penguin Books edition of 'The Centaur' by Algernon Blackwood. I'm rather pleased to own a 1930s Penguin, especially one by a favourite author. #BookChatWeekly #PenguinBooks #AlgernonBlackwood #paperbacks #fantasyfiction
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Reading Algernon Blackwood right now, and I notice the author's absolutely frightening understatement -and understatement in weird fiction is stronger than explanation.
Last read: The Decoy, and this is a good example for #PhantomsFriday.
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My copy of the John Silence stories by Algernon Blackwood bears the bookplate of bibliophile and gourmand A J A Symonds. In the biography by his author brother Julian, we are told that A J A 'professed a great admiration for Poe, for Algernon Blackwood ... [1/2 #AlgernonBlackwood #BookChatWeekly
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Just finished reading the first of the John Silence stories by Algernon Blackwood, A Psychical Invasion.
Totally see what's meant when I read stuff talking about Silence as a proto-Kolchak and proto-Mulder. Doctor doing pro Bono work going and investigating the weird spiritual complaints of patients and cataloging and solving them.
Looking forward to the other five stories.
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Reading info on this one, looks like a proto-Mulder. I like the supernatural detective trope and it looks like this is one of the originators of the trope.
#Bookstodon #JohnSilence #AlgernonBlackwood
(comment on The complete John Silence stories)
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A supernatural short story by Algernon Blackwood about doomscrolling during WWI (1915).
#AlgernonBlackwood #literature #ShortStory #WeirdFiction #newspaper #WWI
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Pilene
“Der er en ny udgivelse i Eschos “Fremmed fugl”-serie.”
Sådan. Der var dit startskud til at trisse til din lokale bogpusher, hvad enten det er en decideret butik, biblioteket eller den sære gamle mand nede på hjørnet, der fremdrager slidte bøger fra en uhumsk frakke. Denne gang er det Algernon Blackwoods “Pilene”, du skal bede om.
Og det skal du gøre med glæde i stemmen, for det er ærligt talt nok en af de bedste udgivelser i en altid spændende serie.
“The Willows” blev først udgivet i 1907 – og har været udgivet på dansk i “Gotiske gysere” (i Regnbueserien) i 1987. Her er den i ny oversættelse med efterord af Kasper Opstrup. Den er med rette blevet prist af bl.a. Lovecraft for at være ypperlig.
To mænd – fortælleren og hans svenske ven – er på vej ned ad Donau-floden i kano, da dårligt vejr og stigende vand tvinger dem til at søge tilflugt på en ø midt i floden. De må slå lejr blandt piletræerne, der rusker i vinden, men snart begynder de begge at få fornemmelser, at blive foruroligede, at skræmmes. Noget er helt galt på den lille ø, der langsomt er ved at blive oversvømmet, og pludselig kan de ikke komme væk.
Det er et klassisk setup, men Blackwood slipper af sted med en nærperfekt balance, hvor det er den tilbageholdte rædsel, der driver værket. De kan ikke bare stikke af, men samtidig er der heller ikke noget rasende monster, der jager dem; blot små ting, som bliver flere og flere og mere og mere forkerte. Og langsomt trækkes der tråde, der rækker fra floden til andre verdener og udenjordiske rædsler. Det er kosmisk horror, når det er bedst. Det er 30 år siden, jeg sidst har læst langnovellen, og den slog endnu hårdere i dag.
En smuk udgivelse og en grum bog. Hurra for den.
Eneste forundring: “Pilene” er ramt af samme sære fontvalg som “Carmilla”, hvor (næsten) alle tilfælde af oe omsættes til œ. Sært og forstyrrende for teksten, men heldigvis ikke ødelæggende.
Som en bonus: hvis man er fanget ind af denne, vil jeg anbefale én at få fat i T. Kingfishers “The Hollow Places”, der leger videre med ideen. Ellers er der også flere Blackwood-udgivelser på dansk.
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Algernon Blackwood's novella "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" is an astonishingly queer story of nature and loss.
Some thoughts on it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/blackwoods-man-104179022
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@gutenberg_org @internetarchive
A quick browse and listen on Librivox finds an acceptable to me reading by #MatthewWinterrowd, a human in my understanding, from America, just as #AlgernonBlackwood himself was.This reading is contained within a collection of readings.
So there is a little complexity involved.But for God's sake, don't go listening to The Willows if you can't handle a little complxity.
https://librivox.org/lovecrafts-influences-and-favorites-by-various/
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Alright, #October is thoroughly here so find your blanket, hot drink, and comfiest seat, then head on over to https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy where Sam will be reading you a ghost story from #AlgernonBlackwood.
#ReadingAloud #AudioBook #BedtimeStory #GhostStory #Halloween #JohnSilence
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Going live now to talk with our faces about books and things! Maybe Algernon Blackwood, maybe Literary Fiction? Then we'll be playing @blacktabbygames's Scarlet Hollow in an hour!
Come join us on https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy@bookstodon
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Finished reading #TheDamned by #AlgernonBlackwood on our @chilliteracy stream last night, and it's excellent. Thoroughly enjoyed its depressive haunted house atmosphere, highly recommended
https://youtu.be/4Wk55FMOqSI?si=UlxQrQ021BLSGCt_ -
Starting in just a few minutes over on https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy Sam will be going live to read you the second half of #TheDamned by #AlgernonBlackwood. It's a haunting unique take on a haunted house, and perfect accompaniment to the darkening autumnal evenings.
@bookstodon
#HauntedHouse #GhostStory #ReadingAloud #AudioBook #Depression #Cosy #Cozy -
Got a fine moody tale of dread and ghosts for you tonight: #TheDamned by #AlgernonBlackwood will be started by Sam in just a few minutes over on https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy
Turn down the lights and come on over for a bedtime story
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Any weird fiction fans here? I'm talking about the real stuff, from Weird Tales of the 1920s/30s.
I got into the genre in the usual way, through Lovecraft. And in the usual way I started exploring work of various writers in his circle, and the work of writers whom Lovecraft admired.
Hashtags for some of the weird fiction writers I like:
#hplovecraft #ClarkAshtonSmith #CLMoore #LeighBrackett #algernonblackwood #arthurmachen #LordDunsany #RobertEHoward #weirdfiction #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn
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Any weird fiction fans here? I'm talking about the real stuff, from Weird Tales of the 1920s/30s.
I got into the genre in the usual way, through Lovecraft. And in the usual way I started exploring work of various writers in his circle, and the work of writers whom Lovecraft admired.
Hashtags for some of the weird fiction writers I like:
#hplovecraft #ClarkAshtonSmith #CLMoore #LeighBrackett #algernonblackwood #arthurmachen #LordDunsany #RobertEHoward #weirdfiction #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn
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Any weird fiction fans here? I'm talking about the real stuff, from Weird Tales of the 1920s/30s.
I got into the genre in the usual way, through Lovecraft. And in the usual way I started exploring work of various writers in his circle, and the work of writers whom Lovecraft admired.
Hashtags for some of the weird fiction writers I like:
#hplovecraft #ClarkAshtonSmith #CLMoore #LeighBrackett #algernonblackwood #arthurmachen #LordDunsany #RobertEHoward #weirdfiction #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn
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Any weird fiction fans here? I'm talking about the real stuff, from Weird Tales of the 1920s/30s.
I got into the genre in the usual way, through Lovecraft. And in the usual way I started exploring work of various writers in his circle, and the work of writers whom Lovecraft admired.
Hashtags for some of the weird fiction writers I like:
#hplovecraft #ClarkAshtonSmith #CLMoore #LeighBrackett #algernonblackwood #arthurmachen #LordDunsany #RobertEHoward #weirdfiction #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn
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Any weird fiction fans here? I'm talking about the real stuff, from Weird Tales of the 1920s/30s.
I got into the genre in the usual way, through Lovecraft. And in the usual way I started exploring work of various writers in his circle, and the work of writers whom Lovecraft admired.
Hashtags for some of the weird fiction writers I like:
#hplovecraft #ClarkAshtonSmith #CLMoore #LeighBrackett #algernonblackwood #arthurmachen #LordDunsany #RobertEHoward #weirdfiction #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn
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I've edited an anthology of 30 Christmas ghost stories penned from 1820 to 1929. In paperback & Kindle from all Amazon marketplaces.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost.../dp/B0BHMPR3RY/ref=sr_1_1...Features: #WashingtonIrving #CharlesDickens #MarkLemon #ElizabethGaskell #ENesbit #FitzJamesOBrien #EFBenson #SabineBaringGould #MaryElizabethBraddon, #CharlotteRiddell #RobertLouisStevenson #algernonblackwood & many more
#Christmas #ghost #ghoststories #horror #shortstory #ghoststoriesforchristmas #andibrooks #fiction #anthology
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I've edited an anthology of 30 Christmas ghost stories penned from 1820 to 1929. In paperback & Kindle from all Amazon marketplaces.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost.../dp/B0BHMPR3RY/ref=sr_1_1...Features: #WashingtonIrving #CharlesDickens #MarkLemon #ElizabethGaskell #ENesbit #FitzJamesOBrien #EFBenson #SabineBaringGould #MaryElizabethBraddon, #CharlotteRiddell #RobertLouisStevenson #algernonblackwood & many more
#Christmas #ghost #ghoststories #horror #shortstory #ghoststoriesforchristmas #andibrooks #fiction #anthology
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I've edited an anthology of 30 Christmas ghost stories penned from 1820 to 1929. In paperback & Kindle from all Amazon marketplaces.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost.../dp/B0BHMPR3RY/ref=sr_1_1...Features: #WashingtonIrving #CharlesDickens #MarkLemon #ElizabethGaskell #ENesbit #FitzJamesOBrien #EFBenson #SabineBaringGould #MaryElizabethBraddon, #CharlotteRiddell #RobertLouisStevenson #algernonblackwood & many more
#Christmas #ghost #ghoststories #horror #shortstory #ghoststoriesforchristmas #andibrooks #fiction #anthology
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I've edited an anthology of 30 Christmas ghost stories penned from 1820 to 1929. In paperback & Kindle from all Amazon marketplaces.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost.../dp/B0BHMPR3RY/ref=sr_1_1...Features: #WashingtonIrving #CharlesDickens #MarkLemon #ElizabethGaskell #ENesbit #FitzJamesOBrien #EFBenson #SabineBaringGould #MaryElizabethBraddon, #CharlotteRiddell #RobertLouisStevenson #algernonblackwood & many more
#Christmas #ghost #ghoststories #horror #shortstory #ghoststoriesforchristmas #andibrooks #fiction #anthology
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I've edited an anthology of 30 Christmas ghost stories penned from 1820 to 1929. In paperback & Kindle from all Amazon marketplaces.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost.../dp/B0BHMPR3RY/ref=sr_1_1...Features: #WashingtonIrving #CharlesDickens #MarkLemon #ElizabethGaskell #ENesbit #FitzJamesOBrien #EFBenson #SabineBaringGould #MaryElizabethBraddon, #CharlotteRiddell #RobertLouisStevenson #algernonblackwood & many more
#Christmas #ghost #ghoststories #horror #shortstory #ghoststoriesforchristmas #andibrooks #fiction #anthology
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Am 28.11.22 erscheint um 12:00 Uhr ein neuer Beitrag im #LovecrafterOnline.
Diesmal geht es wieder um Lovecrafts „dunkle #Idole“: Nach #ArthurMachen befasst sich Neodyn mit #AlgernonBlackwood.
Wer sich für Leben und Werk Blackwoods interessieren könnte, sollte reinschauen. #Lovecraft
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Some writers I like, in various genres.
#lesliecharteris #hplovecraft #leighbrackett #alistairmaclean #ianfleming #raymondchandler #lendeighton #erlestanleygardner #robertehoward #arthurmachen #algernonblackwood #mrjames #edgarwallace #sheridanlefanu -
Some writers I like, in various genres.
#lesliecharteris #hplovecraft #leighbrackett #alistairmaclean #ianfleming #raymondchandler #lendeighton #erlestanleygardner #robertehoward #arthurmachen #algernonblackwood #mrjames #edgarwallace #sheridanlefanu
