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Algernon Blackwood

So... what are you reading these days? Anything good??
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Algernon Blackwood

Postby Cyborg Girl » Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:25 am

Not sure if anyone else here has read The Willows?

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11438

or The Wendigo?

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10897

Be warned that there is some racism in these, though nothing as gratuitously horrible as HP Lovecraft or Robert E Howard. They are from the early 20th century, alas.

What's interesting to me about Blackwood though is that, while he predates Lovecraft, his themes are a lot more modern. Pay attention in particular to how his characters behave under extremes of psychological stress, when their worldviews start to fray at the edges, and you'll see what I mean.
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