“Best Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood” is a collection of frightening tales by one of the greatest British writers of supernatural fiction of the twentieth century. Born in London in 1869, Blackwood began publishing ghost stories in 1906 and became a prolific writer, as well as a journalist and radio broadcaster. Included in this collection are such classic tales as “Ancient Sorceries”, which follows a tourist who becomes enchanted by a strange French town and the ancient secrets that are...
This eBook edition of «Jimbo» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. «Jimbo was not quite sure that he understood the message, but he liked it all the same,...
Al evocar las misteriosas fuerzas espirituales de la naturaleza, los escritos de Algernon Blackwood habitan la nebulosa frontera entre la fantasía, el asombro, la maravilla y el terror. Del autor de Los sauces y El Wendigo, he aquí una exquisita antología donde figuran relatos monumentales, muchos de los cuales habían permanecido —inexplicablemente— inéditos en español."Blackwood es el absoluto e incuestionable maestro de la atmósfera fantástica… Su genio es indiscutible, pues nadie se ha...
