Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951)
Autor de The Willows
Sobre El Autor
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Obras de Algernon Blackwood
The Whisperers and Other Stories: A Lifetime of the Supernatural (British Library Hardback Classics) (2022) 16 copias
The Willows, The Wendigo and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood: Annotated… (2015) 11 copias
Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80 Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost… (2015) 9 copias
Selected short stories of Algernon Blackwood: (ghost and supernatural stories) (Armed Services edition) (1943) 6 copias
10 Extreme Ghost Stories For Hardcore Horror Fans Only Illustrated (Ghost Stories & Hauntings) (2009) 5 copias
The listener,: And other stories 4 copias
Full circle 4 copias
A Little Black Book of Bedevilment 3 copias
The Listener 3 copias
Contos de Algernon Blackwood 3 copias
The Goblin's Collection 2 copias
Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows" and Other Tales of Terror: Premium Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories (2014) 2 copias
LibriVox Ghost Story Collection 001 2 copias
The JOHN SILENCE SERIES - Complete Collection: A Psychical Invasion Ancient Sorceries The Nemesis of Fire Secret… (2019) 1 copia
JOHN SILENCE SERIES - Complete Collection: A Psychical Invasion Ancient Sorceries The Nemesis of Fire Secret Worship… (2015) 1 copia
Lure of the Unknown 1 copia
A Wendigo és más furcsa mesék 1 copia
Ghost Stories 1 copia
The Collected Shorter Supernatural & Weird Fiction of Algernon Blackwood Volume 4: Twenty-Nine Short Stories of the… (2023) 1 copia
Algernon Blackwood Classics Collection: The Wendigo, The Willows, The Centaur, Incredible Adventures, The Empty House… (2021) 1 copia
Ciemne Strony 1 copia
Migrations 1 copia
PREMIUM Collection - The Greatest Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood: (10 Best Supernatural & Fantasy Tales) The Empty… (2015) 1 copia
Initiation 1 copia
Kamer te huur 1 copia
13 Tales of Terror 1 copia
Discesa in Egitto 1 copia
The Works of Algernon Blackwood 1 copia
Colui che ascoltava nel buio 1 copia
Mr. Cupboard 1 copia
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Great Weird Tales: 14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen and Others (2011) — Contribuidor — 57 copias
There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales (2020) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (2021) — Contribuidor — 32 copias
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Strange relics : stories of archaeology and the supernatural, 1895-1954 (2022) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
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Fantastisia kertomuksia : antologia 11 copias
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Georgian Stories 1924 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
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Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 3, September 1938 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Blackwood, Algernon Henry
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1869-03-14
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1951-12-10
- Lugar de sepultura
- Cremated
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Groot-Brittannië
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Shooter's Hill, Kent, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Bishopsteighton, Kent, England, UK
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cerebral thrombosis
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Educación
- Wellington College
Edinburgh University - Ocupaciones
- author
writer
broadcaster - Organizaciones
- Ghost Club Society
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Theosophical Society - Premios y honores
- Commander, Order of the British Empire (Commander1949)
Television Society Silver Medal (1948)
Miembros
Debates
THE DEEP ONES: "The Heath Fire" by Algernon Blackwood en The Weird Tradition (enero 15)
THE DEEP ONES: "Roman Remains" by Algernon Blackwood en The Weird Tradition (septiembre 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Wolves of God" by Algernon Blackwood en The Weird Tradition (enero 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "A Victim of Higher Space" by Algernon Blackwood en The Weird Tradition (octubre 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "A Touch of Pan" by Algernon Blackwood en The Weird Tradition (diciembre 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood en The Weird Tradition (marzo 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House" by Algernon Blackwood en The Weird Tradition (abril 2015)
Opinions on Algernon Blackwood en Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (enero 2012)
Reseñas
Listas
Ghosts (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 261
- También por
- 189
- Miembros
- 5,125
- Popularidad
- #4,867
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 123
- ISBNs
- 877
- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
- 45
I'm sure it's due to some obscure perverseness that I can't consciously pinpoint, but I've never quite warmed up to "The Willows." Despite its esteemed reputation, despite the fact that I've reread it many times during the past thirty-five years in hopes that I would appreciate some nuance which previously had eluded me, I'm left essentially unmoved by the story. With just two characters in a single setting, and action that remains almost entirely ambiguous to the end, it's too spare to justify its length (a little over fifty pages). Not much happens: two outdoorsmen, one of them the story's narrator, are paddling a canoe up the Danube; they make camp on one of the river's numerous small islands, where the willow bushes seem to take on a threatening aspect. Are the willows really occupied/manipulated by some intelligent lifeform from another plane of existence, or are the men so overwhelmed by the loneliness and remoteness of the island that they (one of them, in particular) suffer a psychotic break? It's never made clear. The missing oar, the damage to the canoe and the loss of provisions arguably can be blamed on the narrator's eccentric traveling companion. Even the ghastly corpse that turns up at the end may have been a victim of the Swede.
Here emerges an inescapable parallel with the age-old critical debate over Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw" (which Blackwood greatly admired): is it really a ghost story, or isn't it? But "The Willows" is even less plainly a tale of the supernatural. Read it carefully and you'll realize how consistent the psychological interpretation is. With a single exception (a visual phenomenon which the narrator witnesses alone, and is easily attributable to imagination), all the strange events of the story could have been wrought by human hands. What "The Willows" is actually about, in my view, is the narrator's dawning realization that his traveling companion is not the stable, unimaginative, trustworthy type he had appeared to be.
I understand the effect that Blackwood was aiming for, but the execution is labored. Again and again, the narrator describes the uncanny atmosphere of the island, the rustling of the willows, the anxiety that overtakes him as escape begins to look impossible...and the more he describes it, the less I'm able to feel it. Blackwood is too insistent, and because the story is so long yet so lacking in substance, he has no choice but to go on insisting. All that the narrator can do is sit around and wait for something bad to happen. It just doesn't work for me. I'm not sure how "The Willows" came to be regarded as the greatest horror story in the English language; I'll take Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan" (which is, unambiguously and unapologetically, a horror story) any day of the week. And this, I assure you, is coming from someone who admires much of Algernon Blackwood's work. He conveyed an atmosphere of supernatural wonder far more effectively in "Ancient Sorceries," and of creeping dread and horror in "The Occupant of the Room."… (más)