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The Wendigo and Other Stories

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Algernon Blackwood
Edited by Aaron Worth

09 November 2023

ISBN: 9780198848882

512 pages
Paperback
196x129mm

Oxford World's Classics

Price: £7.99

The tales of Algernon Blackwood, in the view of many the greatest weird writer of them all, blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk.

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The tales of Algernon Blackwood, in the view of many the greatest weird writer of them all, blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk.

  • Showcases a combination of stories from different stages of Blackwood's career, from ghost stories, to nature Gothic, to cosmic horror
  • Includes such undisputed classics as 'The Wendigo', 'The Willows', and 'Ancient Sorceries', as well as two superbly unsettling novellas and ten other stories, short and long, drawn from collections spanning Blackwood's career
  • Draws upon Blackwood's own copious essays, radio talks, and TV appearances, some of which have only recently become available
  • Comprehensive and up-to-date critical apparatus and extensive explanatory notes

About the Author(s)

Algernon Blackwood

Edited by Aaron Worth, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Boston University

Aaron Worth is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, and author of Imperial Media (2014) as well as numerous articles on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature and culture. He has previously edited The Great God and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen (2018), Green Tea and Other Weird Stories by Sheridan Le Fanu (2020), and The Virgin of the Seven Daggers and Other Stories by Vernon Lee (2022) for Oxford World's Classics.

Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Note on the Text
    Select Bibliography
    A Chronology of Algernon Blackwood
    The Wendigo and Other Stories
    Explanatory Notes

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