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Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

Algernon Blackwood

2003·374 pages

classics short stories

“the single finest weird tale in literature”
— Lovecraft

By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Wendigo"; "The Insanity of Jones"; and "Sand."

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Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

Algernon Blackwood

Year

2003

Pages

374

Fantasy Horror Literary Fiction

Tags

classics short stories

Praise

“the single finest weird tale in literature”
— Lovecraft

Description

By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Wendigo"; "The Insanity of Jones"; and "Sand."

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