Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural

by Algernon Blackwood

Hardcover, 1962

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Available

Call number

823.9

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Publication

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd (1962), Edition: New impression, Hardcover, 426 pages

Description

Algernon Blackwood continues to demonstrate the power of his words as he shocks and disturbs in this collection of supernatural tales. In a world where the line between sanity and insanity becomes increasingly blurred, tales such as 'Violence' demonstrate the mind's ability to deceive itself to a horrifying end, whilst 'The Terror of the Twins' portrays the destructive power of hate from beyond the grave. In tales where a happy ending is hard to find, prepare yourself for a journey into the darkest elements of the human psyche.

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LibraryThing member JBD1

Now that I've exhausted the M.R. James canon I've turned to Blackwood, whose stories I don't like quite as much as James' (mostly because the topics covered are so different and I prefer James' scholarly hauntings to Blackwood's more varied tales, and because Blackwood's prose isn't quite so snappy

and sharp as James'). But some of the stories here I thoroughly enjoyed: "The Man Who Was Milligan," "The Trod," and "The Deferred Appointment" were probably my favorites from this collection.

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LibraryThing member andyray

Algernon uses way too many adverbs and adjectives to tell the story. Most of the stories in this anthology aren't worth wading through, but "The Decoy" is a decent ghost story, and "The Last Valley" is rather mytically nice.

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