Before finding renown as a writer of ghost stories, Algernon Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, mining in the Alaskan goldfields, and working as a newspaper reporter in New York City before moving to England. His story The Willows is considered one of the finest supernatural tales ever written. Julius LeVallon is a mystical reincarnation novel.

Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Talking to the Gods explores the linkages between the imaginative literature and the occult beliefs and practices of four writers who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. William Butler Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune were all members of the occult organization for various periods from 1890 to 1930. Yeats, of course, is both a canonical and well-loved poet. Machen is revered as a master of the weird tale. Blackwood’s work dealing with the supernatural was popular during the first half of the twentieth century and has been influential in the development of the fantasy genre. Fortune’s books are acknowledged as harbingers of trends in second-wave feminist spirituality. Susan Johnston Graf examines practices, beliefs, and ideas engendered within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and demonstrates how these are manifest in each author’s work, including Yeats’s major theoretical work, A Vision.

The antecedents of fantasy literature extend back to the very beginnings of storytelling itself, but modern fantasy became recognizable as a distinct literary form only in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with the publication of the novels of William Morris and the short stories of Lord Dunsany. The emphasis by these writers and their successors on ideal and sometimes less than ideal places and peoples who exist only in a realm of pure imagination laid the foundation for later works by J. R. R. Tolkien and many others. Book jacket.

The Master of the Supernatural, Algernon Blackwood was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. This comprehensive eBook presents the collected works of Algernon Blackwood, numerous illustrations, rare tales appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, Blackwood’s post-1925 works cannot appear in this edition. The Novels Jimbo (1909) The Education of Uncle Paul (1909) The Human Chord (1910) The Centaur (1911) A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913) Julius Le Vallon (1916) The Wave (1916) The Promise of Air (1918) The Garden of Survival (1918) The Bright Messenger (1921) The Children’s Novel The Extra Day (1915) The Short Story Collections The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories (1906) The Listener and Other Stories (1907) John Silence (1908) The Lost Valley and Other Stories (1910) Pan’s Garden (1912) Ten Minute Stories (1914) Incredible Adventures (1914) Day and Night Stories (1917) Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories (1921) Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches (1924) Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Play Karma (1918) The Autobiography Episodes before Thirty (1923)