Small presses have brought out editions of Blackwood’s original collections as they were first published. Most readers came across Blackwood’s work in anthologies of ghost stories or in “Best of” collections like Penguin’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Tales. James, Blackwood is the author most suited toward quiet reading on October nights. He was a direct influence on my Gothic horror story “The Shredded Tapestry.” With the possibly exception of M. Blackwood was enormously popular as an author of ghost stories-or so they were classified-in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy has stretched on through the many authors who learned their sense of the supernatural and the transcendental through his work. My favorite author of the “weird tale,” and by extension supernatural horror in general, is Algernon Blackwood.
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