The Willows is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which "moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible." - Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. After managing to land their canoe for the evening, during the night and into the next day and night, the mysterious, hostile forces emerge in force, including large, dark shapes that seem to trace the consciousness of the two men… 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.

"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature.[1] "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.

A gorgeous graphic adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's The Willows, one of the greatest contributions to dark, atmospheric literature.

Set on the snaking, sinuous Danube River, Algernon Blackwood's tale "The Willows" represents a high point in the development of the horror genre. Indeed, acknowledged master H.P. Lovecraft regarded it as the best supernatural tale ever written. More awe-inspiring and thought-provoking than gory or terrifying, "The Willows" is a must-read for fans of classic ghost stories.

A collection of the stories of Blackwood, precursor of Lovecraft and early master of weird fiction and uncanny horror has been lavishly illustrated by the celebrated graphic artist Pope..

Horror books have been part of the literary world for years, but it seems like horror in all its mediums has been on the upswing in recent times. Maybe people are realizing just how satisfying it is to settle into a scary story, feel the rush of adrenaline, and then close the book, turn off the movie, or walk away from that haunted house at the end. To help you on your own hair-raising journey, we’ve put together a list of the best horror classics books of all time. The following works were included in the collection of 25 stories: Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher, H.P. Lovecraft - The Call of Chtulhu, Algernon Blackwood - The Willows, Ambrose Bierce - The Death of Halpin Frayser, Chickamauga, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, E.F. Benson - Mrs Amworth, Naboth's Vineyard, At the Farmhouse, Negotium Perambulans, The Wishing Well, The Terror by Night, The Thing in the Hall, The Cat, The Sanctuary, Robert W. Chambers - The Repairer of Reputations, The Mask, In the Court of the Dragon, The Yellow Sign, W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw, Francis Marion Crawford - The Upper Berth, For the Blood Is the Life, The Screaming Skull, The Doll's Ghost, Man Overboard!

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This illustrated and annotated edition of Blackwood's most influential and mesmerizing weird fiction, ghost stories, and strange tales is the only one of its kind available on the market. Richly annotated, bolstered with introductory essays for each story, and complete with chilling chiaroscuro illustrations, it presents a treasure trove to the ardent Blackwoodian. Welcomed by many as the most skillful practitioner of the British weird tale, Algernon Blackwood was capable of simultaneously creating a misanthropic, Lovecraftian cosmos devoid of compassion for petty, materialistic mankind, and a transcendental, Emersonian universe, pregnant with spirituality and wonder. At once horrifying and fantastical, chilling and euphoric, Blackwood's poetic prose and undisputed mastery of psychological terror make him an unavoidable giant in the realms of weird fiction, fantasy, and horror.