![]() ![]() So many of my stories, therefore, deal with extension of consciousness speculative and imaginative treatment of possibilities outside our normal range of consciousness. ![]() My fundamental interest, I suppose, is signs and proofs of other powers that lie hidden in us all the extension, in other words, of human faculty. As quoted in Peter Penzoldt's The Supernatural in Fiction (1952) Blackwood sums up his writing this way: His short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) is categorized by paranormal buffs as "weird fiction" but many of his stories belong to the Gothic genre where he mixes elements of horror and romance.Ī Haunted Island, The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York, and Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp are enough to send shivers down your spine!īlackwood's stories typically induce a sense of awe, rather than horror. ![]() Pen Name: Born: MaDied: December 10, 1951Įnglish born in 1869, Algernon Blackwood, a journalist and broadcast narrator, was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. ![]()
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