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The tales of Algernon Blackwood, in the view of many the greatest weird writer of them all, blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- A Chronology of Algernon Blackwood
- The Wendigo and Other Stories
- Explanatory Notes
About the author
Aaron Worth is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, and author of Imperial Media (2014) as well as numerous articles on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature and culture. He has previously edited The Great God and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen (2018), Green Tea and Other Weird Stories by Sheridan Le Fanu (2020), and The Virgin of the Seven Daggers and Other Stories by Vernon Lee (2022) for Oxford World's Classics.
Summary
The tales of Algernon Blackwood, in the view of many the greatest weird writer of them all, blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk.
Additional text
This is a collection designed for the general public or for home libraries, as well as a textbook that can be taught in literature classes from high school to grad school. If my professor assigned this book, I would be delighted to explore its contents and to discuss structural patterns and tricks that generate fright in readers in these pages. This book should also be carried in most types of libraries, as it is a part of the British canon that has not been as widely accessible as other canonical bylines, such as 'Conrad'.
