Talk:Algernon Blackwood

The Willows
The Willows - Perhaps his most celebrated story, was influenced heavily by Blackwood's own trips down the Danube River. It tells the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night, a place where another dimension impinges on our own. H.P. Lovecraft considered this the finest supernatural tale in English literature. (Citation needed. Altough in "Supernatural Horror in Literature" Lovecraft praises 'The Willows', he doesn't say the book is that good, or the best of any kind. However, in S.T. Joshi's explanatory notes for 'The Call of the Cthulhu' in "The Call of the Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories" Lovecraft is said to have ranked 'The Willows' as the finest tale in weird literature.") —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)
 * Has been tagged with fact. --Quiddity 05:15, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I gave a source for the claim; the information I provided is from the introduction of "H.P. Lovecraft's Weird Tales," edited by Douglas Anderson, but when I tried to create a footnote saying that, I botched it up. I'll try again later (edit: Okay, did it). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deadlyhair (talk • contribs) 03:10, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I myself don't care for what could be called 'the literature of the uncanny'. It's mostly trashy. But I think The Willows is a beautiful and thrilling piece of work which completely transcends the genre. (So does The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, or Dickens' Christmas Carol to name some famous examples....} 169.229.139.9 (talk) 22:47, 3 October 2008 (UTC)Karl

Good work
Sincere thanks to the person who has been been doing this very worthwhile work on the Algernon Blackwood page recently. He's a terribly underrated author (and sadly, virtually forgotten nowadays), so I'm happy to see someone recognise him for the significant science-fiction/horror pioneer that he was. The quote from Lovecraft is accurate, just needs citation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mardiste (talk • contribs) 23:31, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Some of it was me, so thanks for the appreciation. PhilipC (talk) 21:55, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

I too would like to add my thanks for this excellent and sensitive article. I don't think Algernon Blackwood himself would have been capable of remaining within Wikipedia specifications! But he had other talents....169.229.139.9 (talk) 22:39, 3 October 2008 (UTC)Karl

Pertaining to the summary of "The Man-Eater"
"A variation on the were-wolf story." To what exactly does this refer? To a previously written story about werewolves, or to werewolf folklore in general? ZFT (talk) 04:13, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

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Rolling back changes to restore Deleted Bibliography
Susmuffin may think "The bibliography was far too long", but since they failed to actually create a replacement article to contain this information, wikipedia now doesn't have any bibliography of Blackwood period, so I will be undoing his recent edit and restoring the bibliography. If the editor feels like it's too long, they are welcome to make it, but to scrub this information off Wikipedia completely in this way is just too much.

Ummunmutamnag (talk) 14:31, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Re-adding bibliography
This is how I'm going to add a bibliography back to the page then, if anyone has any issues, feel free to comment

Works

Novels
By date of first publication: Children's novels:
 * Jimbo: A Fantasy (1909)
 * The Education of Uncle Paul (1909)
 * The Human Chord (1910)
 * The Centaur (1911)
 * A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913); sequel to The Education of Uncle Paul
 * The Extra Day (1915)
 * Julius LeVallon (1916)
 * The Wave (1916)
 * The Promise of Air (1918)
 * The Garden of Survival (1918)
 * The Bright Messenger (1921); sequel to Julius LeVallon
 * Dudley & Gilderoy: A Nonsense (1929)
 * Sambo and Snitch (1927)
 * The Fruit Stoners: Being the Adventures of Maria Among the Fruit Stoners (1934)

Plays
By date of first performance:
 * The Starlight Express (1915), coauthored with Violet Pearn; incidental music by Edward Elgar; based on Blackwood's 1913 novel A Prisoner in Fairyland
 * Karma a reincarnation play in prologue epilogue and three acts (1918), coauthored with Violet Pearn;
 * The Crossing (1920a), coauthored with Bertram Forsyth; based on Blackwood's 1913 short story "Transition"
 * Through the Crack (1920), coauthored with Violet Pearn; based on Blackwood's 1909 novel The Education of Uncle Paul and 1915 novel The Extra Day
 * White Magic (1921), coauthored with Bertram Forsyth
 * The Halfway House (1921), coauthored with Elaine Ainley
 * Max Hensig (1929), coauthored with Frederick Kinsey Peile; based on Blackwood's 1907 short story "Max Hensig – Bacteriologist and Murderer"

Short fiction collections
By date of first publication:
 * The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories (1906); original collection
 * The Listener and Other Stories (1907); original collection
 * John Silence (1908); original collection; reprinted with added preface, 1942
 * The Lost Valley and Other Stories (1910); original collection
 * Pan's Garden: a Volume of Nature Stories (1912); original collection
 * Ten Minute Stories (1914a); original collection
 * Incredible Adventures (1914b); original collection
 * Day and Night Stories (1917); original collection
 * Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories (1921), ; original collection
 * Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches (1924); original collection
 * Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales (1927a); selections from previous Blackwood collections
 * The Dance of Death and Other Tales (1927b); selections from previous Blackwood collections; reprinted as 1963's The Dance of Death and Other Stories
 * Strange Stories (1929); selections from previous Blackwood collections
 * Short Stories of To-Day & Yesterday (1930); selections from previous Blackwood collections
 * The Willows and Other Queer Tales (1932); selected by G. F. Maine from previous Blackwood collections
 * Shocks (1935); original collection
 * The Tales of Algernon Blackwood (1938); selections from previous Blackwood collections, with a new preface by Blackwood
 * Selected Tales of Algernon Blackwood (1942); selections from previous Blackwood collections (not to be mistaken for the identical title to a 1964 Blackwood collection)
 * Selected Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood (1945); selections from previous Blackwood collections
 * The Doll and One Other (1946); original collection
 * Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural (1949); selections from previous Blackwood collections
 * In the Realm of Terror (1957); selections from previous Blackwood collections
 * The Dance of Death and Other Stories (1963); reprint of 1927's The Dance of Death and Other Tales
 * Selected Tales of Algernon Blackwood (1964); selections from previous Blackwood collections (not to be mistaken for the identical title to a 1942 Blackwood collection)
 * Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre (1967); selections from previous Blackwood collections
 * Ancient Sorceries and Other Stories (1968); selections from previous Blackwood collections
 * Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (1973), selected and introduced by Everett F. Bleiler; selections from previous Blackwood collections; includes Blackwood's own preface to 1938's The Tales of Algernon Blackwood
 * The Best Supernatural Tales of Algernon Blackwood (1973); selected and introduced by Felix Morrow; selections from 1929's Strange Stories
 * Tales of Terror and Darkness (1977); puts together Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre and Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural.
 * Tales of the Supernatural (1983); selected and introduced by Mike Ashley; selections from previous Blackwood collections
 * The Magic Mirror (1989); selected, introduced, and notes by Mike Ashley; original collection
 * The Complete John Silence Stories (1997); selected and introduced by S. T. Joshi; reprint of 1908's John Silence (without the preface to the 1942 reprint) and the one remaining John Silence story, "A Victim of Higher Space"
 * Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (2002); selected, introduced, and notes by S. T. Joshi; selections from previous Blackwood collections
 * Algernon Blackwood's Canadian Tales of Terror (2004); selected, introduced, with notes by John Robert Colombo; eight stories of special Canadian interest plus information on the author's years in Canada

Ummunmutamnag (talk) 14:52, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Much better – User:Susmuffin as the one who deleted the long bibliography in the first place, what do you think? --Johannnes89 (talk) 14:54, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Fair Use Image
How come a non-free image is used here? There is a perfectly good photo of him on Wikimedia: -KnightofFaerië (talk) 18:29, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Good point! Hekerui (talk) 22:17, 31 January 2022 (UTC)