Algernon Blackwood
1869 – 1951
Blackwood was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre.
Throughout his adult life he was an essayist for periodicals. In his late thirties, he also started to write supernatural stories, and published ten original collections of short stories which were recorded for radio and television. To satisfy his interest in the supernatural, he joined The Ghost Club, a paranormal investigation and research organization, founded in London in 1862.
Literary critics felt his works were more consistently admirable than any other of the “weird writers” (with the exception of Lord Dunsany) and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) was the premier weird collection of all time.
He also wrote 14 novels, several children’s books and a number of plays, most of which were produced (but not published).
His love of nature and the outdoors is reflected in many of his stories.
Jimbo, A Fantasy
Fantasy / Supernatural Fiction
A young boy’s brush with death unleashes a vivid out-of-body fantasy journey blending whimsy, fear, and imagination
The Centaur
Mystical Fantasy
An English traveller’s pilgrimage through the Mediterranean becomes an ecstatic mystical journey toward unity with nature and the elemental forces of existence
The Education of Uncle Paul
Fantasy / Supernatural
A spiritual coming-of-self tale in which a man reconnects with childlike wonder through the imaginative adventures of his nieces and nephew
The Human Chord
Supernatural / Occult-Horror
A mystical quest in rural Wales in which sound, language, and the “true name” become conduits for spiritual transformation and cosmic risk