Seven of the best stories from a seminal author of the supernatural whose devotees ranged from H. P. Lovecraft to Henry Miller
Blackwood was a writer of great distinctionhis narratives were not so much ghost stories as psychic adventures, his characters standing on the brink of alternative, sometimes frightening
worlds: two campers find themselves staying in an eerie locale, impinged on by another dimension; a tourist returning from a trip becomes too enchanted with a strange French town and its
people to leave; a member of a hunting party is abducted in the Canadian wilderness. Mysterious and unsettling, his stories have the capacity to invoke genuine fear in the reader. This
collection includes "The Willows"perhaps Blackwood’s most celebrated story, and considered to be one of the finest supernatural tales in English literatureand "The Wendigo," another
undisputed masterpiece, and confirms Algernon Blackwood as one of the modern geniuses of supernatural fiction.
