A tale about two guys being stranded on a willowy sandbank in the midst of the Danube. A very atmospheric and creepy story. I really liked this story and since I have a whole collection of Blackwoods short stories, I have to check out some of them out in the very near future.
Maybe it says something about me, but the older classic horror novels I am always shocked at how quaint they seem in comparison to works like "It." "It" gave me nightmares for weeks on end as a kid, this book, though scary in tone, is more mental than anything, your brain can turn what the unnamed n...
This series was my first experience with multiple authors working together to write a series on a large scale. I enjoyed every book in the series and found several new authors that I hadn't read before.
This one took a bit longer than I expected to finish. Like any collection of stories, some were hits, some were misses and some were out of the park great. With authors like G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, and Edith Wharton, it was at least weighted towards being better than average. The stori...
I picked up this Folio Society book earlier this year at a used book shop and have been saving it for the Christmas Season. Last night I read The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) right before I went to bed, giving me extra points in the Stupid Things to Do category. This short but undeni...
A collection of Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories, each with an illustration by the ever-pleasing Edward Gorey. All of the stories fit into Gorey's peculiar aesthetic, and several such as Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body-Snatcher" and W.W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" have become ubiquitous wit...
Two friends journey down the Danube River and find themselves at an island where the elements are a force to be reckoned with. As they set up camp they begin to note strange occurrences, the wind steadily increases as does the surrounding water levels, eroding the island area and closing in on them....
"The solitude of that Danube camping-place, can I ever forget it? The feeling of being utterly alone on an empty planet!" Krótka historia wnikająca w głąb kości jak zimny wiatr znad rzeki. Siły natury w najczystszej postaci. Recenzja na:http://czytamjestempodrugiejstronielustra.wordpress.com/2014/08...
So far, I'm impressed with Algernon Blackwood. When I first heard about him, it was in reference to The Wendigo, but as I did more research into him, I discovered that The Willows and The Man Whom the Trees Loved were also highly regarded stories of his. As is my habit, I decided to save what I an...
Have you ever seen a picture of Algernon Blackwood? If not, take a moment and skip over to Google and do a quick image search on the dude. It won't take long.So, now that you've seen him, are you surprised that he wrote a lot of weird fiction ("weird" being Lovecraftian, which is really a discredi...
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