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Lovecraft, The Willows is the finest story in the canon of supernatural fiction. Review Quotes Of the quality of Mr Blackwoods genius there can be no dispute for no one has ever approached the skill, seriousness, and minute fidelity whith which he records the overtones of strangeness in ordinary things and experiences. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including The Willows, which Lovecraft singled out as the single finest weird tale in literature The Wendigo The Insanity of Jones and Sand. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwoods writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Book Synopsis By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood.
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