Algernon Blackwood

Blackwood was also one of the fortunate beings who, on the other side of custom's thick-set hedge, are able to see the gleaming eyes of wild spirits.
—Maude M. C. Ffoulkes, 1915

Introduces and reviews Blackwood as a writer who combines elements of the occult with modern science, particularly in his book John Silence.

A reputation for being haunting dissuades prospective tenants from a rental property in England.

A description of Christmas tranditions in england which includes the quote In the classic city of Oxford, the stronghold of ancient customs and ancient opinions…

The history and traditions of a central European Protestant Christian group, which seem to remain relevant to the present-day.

A tourism article which the Jura bears no small resemblance Tolkein's Misty Mountains and Neuchatel likewise resemble his Rivendell.

A description of the Black Forest in Germany, and its people, including references to witchs, gnomes, fairies, wizards, and nixie.

English lady trifles with the affections of an Alpine German villager.

A spectral encounter with native Indians during a stay by a lake in Canada, a story which connects to Summering in Canadian Backwoods.

Blackwood engages in jingoistic public service in England

Jim Shorthouse overhears a spectral German conversation in a meager, urban, US boarding-house. #JimShorthouse

Blackwood calls Humbug! on the spiritualism he encounters in America.

Authors description of a European boat trip on Danube river including Hungary, contain the quote buffalo milk, when we could get it, was excellent.

Travelogue of an English camper in Central Europe, in two parts beginning pg 350 and pg 418.

Describes the pleasantness of the rural Great Lakes region of Canada, begins pg215.

A children's nature romance that centers around climbing cliffs where birds nest in England.

Autobiographical account of the authors time at school in the Black Forest in Germany. Includes some reference to fairies and kobolds as well as the quote: The chief difficulty seemed to be that no real forest could contain a school and be enchanted at the same time; and it was only after two years’ actual sojourn in just such a place that I learned in how true a sense this could really be the case. Sections begin on pg 280 and pg 293 in the pdf.

A story that centers on the dangerous business of logging among the Canucks and Indians of Canada.

A modern romance set in England (with reference to India) in which a seeming knight-errant makes and appointment with a metaphorical dragon.

Describes a spiritual dream of ghosts with a theme of reincarnation.

A discussion of hunting Moose in Canada, which connects to The Valley of the Beasts.

Recounts a boating vacation on the Danube.

A struggling writer living in a cramped room in poverty in New York, receives an unexpected visit from a mysterious man with questionable intentions.

A student is interrupted while studying late at night by a visitor who turns out to be a former friend. #Scotland #ghost

A journalism intern covers a new story in New York.

A story of mis-deeds in the woods of Quebec, Canada.

A medical student's book plays a role in his neighbor's supernatural pursuits in Scotland.

Jim Shorthouse has a midnight encounter in a seaside house.

Jim Shorthouse is being sent on a mission by his employer to deliver valuable papers.

A review recounts myths of the Algonquin Indians in Canada.

Encounters with a mysterious old man in a wayside inn who speaks in a captivating manner and hints at a deeper purpose or knowledge in England.

Jim Shorthouse tries not to sleep in a barn in England.

A newspaper reporter interviews a German man accused of murder in seedy, boozy old New York.

The last night of April resembles Halloween, with moors, mist, birds, enchanted hills, and a folk-lorist to make sense of it.

An English spinster traveling on holiday has experiences difficulty in her train-car.

A man cuts a rug with an anthropomorphic personification.

A spiritual story in which like Peter Pan or the birds "you can fly, you can fly", but there is some resemblance to a sermon.

A ghost story in Southwest England, which could really use a Motel 6, with psychic phenomona and murder.

A clerk clings to an old injustice.

A man keeps a diary unaware of the badness of Hansens's disease.

A pious pagan man lives in the Jura woods among the first with a dog.

An encounter with a mystic prompts an epihany and spiritual awakening.

An exploration of a desolate and isolated region along the Danube River, characterized by a vast expanse of willow bushes and marshes.

A woman encounters a mysterious man in a haunted house, where she initially mistakes him for the caretaker but later realizes he is a ghost. Alternate Title: The Specter that Asked for a Kiss>

John Silence receounts an episode from a village in France which was cause du sommeil et à cause des chats.

Felix Pender is experiencing a psychological affliction characterized by a deep-seated fear or horror, resulting in the loss and transformation of his talent, and a desperate need for John Silence's help.

Blackwood's group of 4 avoids getting shaken down by Bavarians and repels an act of river piracy on the Danube.

An English merchant attends a haunted school reunion in Germany involving John Silence, witches, demons, and Rosicrucians.

Connecting to The Wendigo and Skeleton Lake, Canadian Indian ancestry frees the spirit and the wilderness inspires the call of the wild involving John Silence, Sweden, lycanthropy, astral projection, amd the call of the wild.

If the ghost of a murderer can't take it with him, perhaps it can take him, in London England.

Best beware of souvenirs from the middle-east in thiw story that connects to Stephen King's Black Tower and includes John Silence, ka, haunting, Egypt, the elemental, Horus, pagan elements, a mummy, set in England.

Transportation during holidays is often not uneventful but instead psychic and paranormal.

An Englishman sowing oats appears to find himself a passenger in the Cóiste Bodhar.

Pertains to mountain climbing in the snow and among the clouds of the Jura, containting the quote …that awful hissing that more than anything else strikes terror to the heart of the climber….

In this ghost story, a man disappears from among the pines and snow of the woods into higher space.

A Christmas story in which a group of friends celebrate the holidays on bicycle encountering a sort of banshee.

A story of the living earth with German and English elements including the quote Thus there gradually grew up about the Innocent Spinrobin a queer sense that the world was no longer quite the same as he had hitherto seen it.

A sort of Scooby Doo #england ghost story in England in which a gentleman with piggy eyes makes demands of his widow postmortem.

This work is untranscribed and the page scan is not great.

Concerns eerie and mysterious events surrounding a telephone ringing in an apartment. This story was included in Ten Minute Stories under the title You May Telephone from Here and in The Bundaberg Mail as A Trunk Call."

An impression upon arriving at Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

A story centering on paranormal sensitivity, which may exist in London, England.

A pagan story in which an author gets stuck while writing a story about centaurs, this work connects to the novel The Centaur.

Describes a train trip to Eastern Europe and Russia. In >Railway Traveling in the Caucasus, Blackwood sends a postcard and this is included as a part of In a Strange Land.

A story involving reincarnation, somnambulism, hypnotism, England, and Belgium.

A psychic ghost story set in the Jura that evokes the lyric can't you hear me knocking?

A psychic ghost story in which a Russian lady comes between English twins involving Kent. There are significant issues with the page scans so that no single scan is complete.

This story set in England involves psychology, spirits, drugs, and is an allegory of inspiration and artistic vision in the theater.

Wiggins has a big night in England. The story on the Wayback Machine contains vandalism.

This is a vampire story.

Set in Switzerland, this was included in Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural under the title The South Wind and the Illawarra Mercury as The Messenger Came at Midnight and includes the quote He comforteth the earth with the south wind.

A pagaan story in which a sailor onshore in Dorset, England communes with the sea

This is a story of faith and divine providence on the alpine mountainside. A version was originally published under the title The Strange Experience of the Rev. Phillip Ambleside and later published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories as Perpective.

This story concersn the call of the wild and in set in Canada.

German travelers raise international tensions in England.

A haunted room and the unfulfilled yearnings and pain associated with it.

"He will calmly beat a man to death for stealing a horse, yet will also show a compassionate and generous hospitality that is tender in the last degree."#review #russia #terrorism #politics

Disappointment and exhaustion experienced by a friend during a walking tour."

Commentary on snow-skiing and review of a Swiss ski-maker in the Jura.

Birds are transcendant, awe-inspiring and connected to works set on the Danube and the Canadian backwoods.

The author anticipates travel for mountain climbing to the Alps in Europe, including pagan eg to Pan.

In this ghost story or spirit photography, gentleman's portrait is made.

Two brothers in London own a violin while the elevator operator wears a Bowler hat.

An insect provides the narrator a spiritual awakening.

An encounter with an approaching messenger from another world, causes feelings of apprehension and awe.

An experiment with a mysterious substance that enhances perception of thoughts, leads to the narrator following a thought-stream, trying to trace it to its source.

A sort of psychic energy vampire fertilizes his garden.

A man spends the day with himself, in a sense.

A review concerning American Indians includes the quote: My brother told me, many years ago, Some wizards had a quarrel, and they slew One of their number, took his corpse away, And ate it on the isle of Grand Manan, Sitting upon a ledge above the sea.

Blackwood observes a bedouin caravan stopover on the sand at Helouan in the desert of Egypt.

A story in which tresspassers are persecuted.

Nature in the inhospitable Egyptian desert teems with life.

A review engaging the topics of beauty, Russia, and the Middle East that includes the quote: One reads every day such phrases as ‘our commercial, national and imperial welfare’⁠—commercial first, national second, imperial third, and spiritual nowhere.

A work of journalism about snow in the Jura of Switzerland which makes reference to fake news and includes the quote: “For when it comes,” they say, “it will be terrible, and worth waiting for!”

An encounter with Ka in the desert of Egypt.

A story of feline redemption in the winter in the Jura, in Switzerland.

A supernatural spirit story set in Arizona, in the western United States; that asks does a city have a soul?

The desert of Egypt is fascinating, rather than cruel.

A psychic ghost story of phantasmagoria and a colonial governor’s on return to England that connects to A Memory of Beauty includes spiritual christian themes as well as the quote: I found her a cross between a museum and an American mushroom town that advertises all the modern comforts with a violent insistence that is meant to cloak their very absense. and also, a bird's song always makes me think of God.

A pagan elemental with a witch that asks do you want to be a snowman.

A story of Irish mischief in England.

An elemental story set in England with Christian elements in which the fire of the sun, the deep earth, human life, and the 'burning bush' are all connected.

This story, set in England would seem to be a response to special relativity, a connection later made explicit in A Victim of Higher Space and would thus seem to connect Einstein to Lovecraft as it introduces a grimoire bearing no small resemblance to the later Necronomicon.

In this ghost story, a gentleman receives a paranormal supernatural impression from beyond.

In this non-weird story involving England, Arizona and hallucination; a gentleman seeks a second chance at romance.

In this story set in England but connecting to the Indians in America, in which a man is embraced by nature through his wife, then rejected through his niece, there are refernces to Russia, pines and possession; and this story connects to The Man Who Played Upon the Leaf.

This ghost story includes a curse, soullessness, and twins; and is a dramatic example of Blackwood's method viewpoint shift.

A review of "The Four Men" by Hilaire Belloc.

A man is distracted by paranormal books while writing in the Jura.

Characters find themselves injured and is in a state of confusion, unable to recall the events leading to their current situation or identity.

A nature essay on the titled subject, some scientific insights, and comments on its role in poetry with Christian themes and from the Jura.

In this non-weird story, Jones gets the munchies.

Blackwood talks about mountain-climbing in Switzerland

The unseen preparations for the winter tourist season in the snow of the Alps in Switzerland.

This essay describes how Egypt casts a spell upon the visitor and connects to Egypt: An Impression and The Spell of Egypt but they are sufficiently different as to be distinct works

Skiing in Switzerland is rewarding but there are pitfalls.

Blackwood's review of a book of English nature poems.

This review of a travelogue through the desert in the Middle East contains Christian themes.

This romance appears to be reflect a reading of Freud and includes the quote For a moment he knew something of what Dreyfus felt upon his Devil's Island.

In this Christmas story a man comes slowly to realize that his near miss in traffic was not a miss.

Blackwood writes and obituary for an unnamed English lady, who has dementia, in the Jura of Switzerland.

Blackwood reviews of a book of embedded journalism which contains Christian themes and connects to Russia and the Middle.

A story about an unimportant thing along the Italian-Austrian border.

In this pagan story, a man in Helouan Egypt is drawn to the past.

A John Silences story.

The narrator gets queasy on the water between England and France.

A rromance in which a man shops for a gift.

In this children's fairy story set in Sussex, England the author shares the magic of the solstice with his nephew.

This children’s fantasy concerning the plotting of a train crash was reprinted as Chapter III of The Extra Day.

A gentleman dines.

An essay containing emarks on the merits of the named sort of tree.

A Kafkaesque Scooby Doo story set in England in which you are what you have.

An uncle's nature tale for children, includes elves and the quote Jinny, Jimbo and Maria⁠—three survivals in an age when education considers childhood a disease to be cured as hurriedly as possible⁠—took their adventure…

In the dogmatic hell of Blackwood's theology, nothing ever happens.

A story in which one is wise to beware strangers bearing gifts, connecting to ideas of karma, a curse, and idée-fixe, with references to India in relation to England which contains a bit of harsh-language and arguably connects to the Chuckie movie franchise.

Regards nature (storm and snow) and mountain climbing in the alps; connecst to The South Wind and includes the quote: I admit there was this childish pride and pleasure in the disappointment, and to be right even in prophesying disaster holds a faint satisfaction.

Two gentlemen have lunch in London, England.

In this humorous story involving eyebrows, the author's friend is helping his friend with a lease in Chelsea England.

In this ghost story, an English man accompanies a child to the train.

In this paranormal psychic story stet in England, art has the power to transport the viewer to far-away lands such as China.

In this Christian-themed work, the author finds beauty in an emergent group-soul during mobilization for World War I.

Uncle Henry personifies that wind and illustrates his writing process, with kids.

This story set in England refers to Einstein and themes of higher space, connects to The Man Who Was Mulligan, Questions and Answers and argauably Alice in Wonderland and includes the quote: And it affronted her that some of these were German. A writer named Einstein was popular with her lodger and that, she felt, was a pity, as well as a mistake in taste.

In this story that references the Jura, elemental, Canadian, English, giant, pagan, fire, witch, psychic, and the supernatural; a theologian contemplates the relationship between energy and entropy.

In this story set in Switzerland containing Christian and pagan themes, a mountain-climber has a crisis of faith enroute to the Tour du Néant.

An author's eyebrows dance through lunch while eating and discussing writing in England.

In this jingoistic story concerned with beauty, a convalescing casualty of war is visited by the quasi-pagan personification of his country, Brittania.

A fairy tale concerned with soullessness, set in England.

Subtitled The Romance of Hawk Man and the Dove Girl, this story connects Russia and Egypt and refers to Horus.

An appreciation of the cold season in the mountains among the Alps of Switzerland.

The author has a disjointed conversation in the Club, with his vague good-hearted friend who clearly suffers from alcoholism in England.

An essay contempating the end of WWI, involving England, Germany, and Switzerland.

A review of poetry during the war from England, includes the quote This modest little book enshrines a moment of our history in its songs of the war….

That war is hell makes fairy-tales necessary.

A sermon on rosicrucian mysticism is framed as a book review.

This essay writting during the war appears to have been prompted by threat of a labor strike and being, beginning with conventional English religious themes before becoming buddhist, taking on a hippy tone and suggesting a national mediation program.

This is a magazine article containing Chapter 7 of the novel The Extra Day accompanied by a short biography of the author.

This is a childrens poem or song.

Text beings pg 77 and pg 114.

This is a childre's song about a fairy.

In this paga story, an American recounts what might be called a "come to Hermes" meeting and it appears his ancestor was deified through scholarship. Originally published in The Quest as The Exiled Gods another version of the story was later published in Day and Night Stories as Initiation.

In this children's poem, disillusionment with the grown-up world contrasted with the innocence and wonder of children's imagination.

Switzerland, a hub of activity and recovery, is much changed.

In this war romance set in England, Egypt, Greece, and Italy; history repeats and not doing one's duty leads to being cursed for millenia. Includes a character resembling John Silence and seems to connect to Nephele. (w/Violet Pearn)

Set in the Jura.

A man convalesces in England at the tail end of the first World War.

Blackwood makes use of emphatic italics with uncle references and psychology.

At the time of Armistice at the end of the war, Switzerland is eager, but not yet ready, to resume the tourist trade. This story is labeled as "I", but no "II" was subsequently published.

A bittersweet ghost story set in England after the Armistice.

In this ghost story, a trio spend the night in an unpretentious haunted house in Kent, England with a bad reputation.

The abstract notion of Beauty impedes relationships and work.

A demonstration the author's practice of making a story arc actually be a perspective arc, in the context of the ending of World War I.

Depth perception and spooky psychic action at a distance (quantum entanglement?) in World War I London, England.

Love at first sight is as strong as hate at first sight, involving Canada, China, and murder.

A man is visited while camping by a lake in Canada, involving Indians, a canoe, and willows.

The protagonist becomes infatuated with a girl after a humorous encounter involving an olive, leading to a late-night rendezvous that seems reckless and irrational.

Play based on The Education of Uncle Paul novel The Extra Day. (w/Violet Pearn)

A Canadian war veteran in England struggles with shell-shock (and more) in the London fog.

A financial investment in Egypt is threatened, involving psychic possession and Astral Projection.

In this Roman reincarnation romance, after a gentleman digs up a box, a lady dances in sandals, and this could be a problem.

In this Scooby Doo story, spy for England is sick again during the war in Switzerland, has hallucination and envisions a doppleganger.

Play. (w/Elaine Ainley)

In this psychic story involving Mexico, a fern seed carries a dream on a lane in Kent, England.

In this ghost story of pagan possession, a war veteran hikes near England's Roman wall.

Grimwood has a come-to-Ishtot meeting while hunting in this pagan story set in Canada, involging Indian, moose, and canoe.

A man returns from Canada to his brother in the Orkneys.

In this pagan war story, unforgiving Belgian women schedule a come-to-Odin meeting.

Play. (w/Bertram Forsyth)

In a story that may be non-fiction, a botanist has not returned from his Alpine hike.

In this story of disease as curse, with drugs, set in Chelsea, England one must be nice, or be cursed to die by tuberculosis. Seems to connect to the Stephen King novel, Thinner.

In England, nature is unlike poetry in that it is profound and unpretentious.

In Surrey, England, a mining engineer has a certain connection to German dwarves. Story connects to the Caucasus travel stories.

Three actors make a trippy day psychedelic trip to Barton in the beansin this story containtin Christian angels and connects to Einstein.

In this humorour story set in the snow of England and involving psychology, one need n1ever worry about putting your tongue on a frozen flagpole. Reminiscent of Confederacy of Dunces in its use of dialect.

A childhood near-death experience leaves the narrator philosophical, spiritual, and mystical.

That God does not play dice with the universe, does not imply that angels don't play ball with the universe in this work connecting to Einstein and astronomy.

A man enjoys himself at the cinema in war-time England in this story which may be non-fiction.

An couple in England trim the hedge, and decide to travel abroad.

Ruminations on the exhumation of King Tut. There is overlap with Egypt: An Impression and The Spell of Egypt but they are sufficiently different to be distinct works.

A spiritualist researches the literature in this essay involving ghosts, Indians, war, and the sea.

A realization of the passing of time, which is triggered by his encounters with a young boy over the years.

Children's poem about an astral mail-truck.

Children's poem about childhood hijinks and an absence of parental self-awareness.

Children's poem about how adults are just faking it.

Children's poem about a star.

A children's story set in England, with Christian themes, involving a cat, a tortoise and, a nowl.

A child's poem about how ink is messy.

A children's nature story that connects to >A Continuous Performance in the idea of nature being presented as a book to be read.

Switzerland is forever young./p>

Play. (w/Bertram Forsyth)

Blackwood reviews a science book about astronomy.

In this pagan children's book involving druids, Saturn, and a sylph; Rose and Peter worship an Old God.

An autobiographical essay on a philosophy of living that makes refernce to Canada and New York.

Children's Book, Published by Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Fulls scans available HERE but no date is included.

"The Treasure Cave", by Asquith pg74 (1928)

No source available: The Bookman Special Christmas Number 1929, Hodder & Stoughton

Play based on the short story by the same name. (w/Frederick Kinsey Peile)

7 December 1929 Country Life, Vol. 66 #1716 xx/10/1935 Shocks

No source available: "The Golden Gift Book, pg3", Odhams Press (1939)

by Tim Prasil — Blog essay about the author.

by Mike Ashley — Article about the author in Book and Magazine Collector

by Geoffrey Reiter in Christ and Pop Culture (2019)

by Ruthanna Emrys & Anne M. Pillsworth in Reactor (2018)

by Michael Dirda in The New York Review (2016)

Bibliography.

Wikipedia-like author description, biography, bibliography.

Bibliography.

Official record, bibliography.

Partial bibliography & cross-reference.

Alphabetical bibliographys with brief descriptions.

Partial bibliography, links to magazine covers. Blackwood removed from unarchived site.

Long bibliography, grouped, dated, cross-referenced, with links to collections and editions.

Limited bibliography, with links to sources.

Bibliography with links to hard-copy (purchasable) books.

Partial bibliography, publication dates, location, summaries.

Partial bibliography with links to scans.

Full text for a small number of stories and several author portraits.

Short list of works that reference the author.

Biography and bibliography.

Partial bibliography, includes cover images.

Extensive bibliography, with citations and summaries.

Short biography and partial bibliography with (broken) links to texts.

Swan River Press Catalog, pg 6, contains a list of obscure essay titles.