Algernon Blackwood | |
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| Born | Algernon Henry Blackwood 14 March 1869 Shooter's Hill, Kent, England[1] |
| Died | 10 December 1951 (aged 82) London |
| Occupation | Writer, broadcaster |
| Genre | Fantasy, horror, weird fiction |
| Notable works | The Centaur, "The Willows", "The Wendigo" |
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) 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. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".[2]
- ^ "Blackwood, Algernon Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31913. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ S. T. Joshi, The Weird Tale (University of Texas Press, 1990), pp. 131–132.