The Wendigo and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood

The Wendigo and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood

In the view of many one of the greatest writers of the strange and weird, Algernon Blackwood evolved from a teller of ghost stories to a pioneering master of such emergent fictional modes as cosmic horror and nature Gothic. In tales whose settings range from the eerie North Woods of Canada to the mysterious sands of the Egyptian desert, Blackwood blurs the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands wherealien forces lurk, waiting for the chance to break through into our world.

This is a collection designed for the general public or for home libraries, as well as a textbook that can be taught in literature classes from high school to grad schoolIf my professor assigned this book, I would be delighted to explore its contents and to discuss structural patterns and tricks that generate fright in readers in these pages. This book should also be carried in most types of libraries, as it is a part of the British canon that has not been as widely accessible as other canonical bylines, such as 'Conrad'. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *
This is a collection designed for the general public or for home libraries, as well as a textbook that can be taught in literature classes from high school to grad school. If my professor assigned this book, I would be delighted to explore its contents and to discuss structural patterns and tricks that generate fright in readers in these pages. This book should also be carried in most types of libraries, as it is a part of the British canon that has not been as widely accessible as other canonical bylines, such as 'Conrad'. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780198848882
ISBN 10	0198848889
Title	The Wendigo and Other Stories
Author	Algernon Blackwood
Series	Oxford World's Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2023-11-09
Number of pages	496
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