Looking for Algernon Blackwood books? Born in Kent in 1869, he farmed in Canada and reported in New York before writing The Willows, the tale H. P. Lovecraft called the finest weird story ever written.
Here you'll find his famous weird tales, his original ghost story collections and the visionary novels few readers know. That includes The Wendigo, the occult detective John Silence and The Centaur, all written between 1906 and 1921.
All 21 books are free to read online or download as PDF. If you're new to Blackwood, start with The Willows and let the river do the rest.
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Weird Tales
The Willows, The Wendigo and Other Weird Tales
These are the stories that made Algernon Blackwood a master of weird fiction, from a haunted Danube island in The Willows to the Canadian forest of The Wendigo. Ancient Sorceries, The Damned and The Man Whom the Trees Loved share his favorite idea: nature is alive, and it doesn't care about us.
Two friends canoeing down the Danube camp on an island of willows where the border with another world wears thin. H. P. Lovecraft called it the finest weird story ever written.
A moose hunt in the Canadian wilderness turns into a nightmare when one guide hears his name called on the wind. A classic of the vast, indifferent wild as a source of terror.
A painter of trees grows so close to the forest beside his home that his wife fears it is calling him away. Blackwood's most haunting tale of nature as a living, jealous power.
A quiet Englishman steps off a train in a sleepy French town where the people seem to watch him like cats. The most famous John Silence case, presented here as a standalone novella.
A writer and his sister visit a country house built on ground soaked in old religious hatred, and the place begins to press on everyone inside. A slow, oppressive novella of spiritual horror.
A scientist finds an ancient tablet promising the ultimate truth about humanity, and reading it destroys him. A short, bleak tale about knowledge that should stay hidden.
Reincarnation, a forbidden tablet, a snow spirit on a Swiss slope and an Egyptian ritual in the desert. Four of his strangest stories, The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow and Sand, in one volume.
His first book, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, appeared in 1906, and John Silence followed with a doctor who treats hauntings medicine can't explain. Blackwood belonged to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and that occult knowledge runs through every one of these original collections.
Blackwood's first book, ten ghost stories that open with a night spent in a house where a murder still replays itself. Atmospheric and genuinely frightening.
Dr. John Silence treats patients whose troubles come from beyond: psychic attacks, ancient fire spirits and a werewolf on a lonely island. Five cases that mix occult knowledge with real compassion.
Five long visionary tales from 1914, including The Damned and A Descent into Egypt, where ordinary travelers brush against ancient powers. Blackwood at his most mystical.
Twenty-nine short pieces written for newspapers, each one readable in about ten minutes. Odd coincidences, small hauntings and quiet surprises, ideal if you are new to Blackwood.
Fifteen tales from 1921 written with Wilfred Wilson, from a Hudson Bay trapper hunted by spectral wolves to a fisherman who meets the spirit of a wolf in Running Wolf. Some of Blackwood's best late ghost stories.
Fifteen nature stories where trees, wind, sea and snow have a will of their own, with the original illustrations by W. Graham Robertson. Opens with The Man Whom the Trees Loved.
Few readers know that Blackwood wrote more than a dozen novels, and most of them seek wonder instead of fear, like The Centaur and its living Earth. Jimbo and A Prisoner in Fairyland see the world through children's eyes, while The Human Chord and Julius LeVallon turn sound and past lives into magic.
On a steamer bound for the Caucasus, an Irish traveler meets a giant Russian who seems to belong to the Earth's first days. A mystical novel about the living soul of the planet.
After a fright near an empty house, a young boy falls unconscious and his spirit wanders a strange dream world. Blackwood's first novel blends childhood terror with the uncanny.
A young clerk joins a retired clergyman who believes that sounding the true names of things, and of God, can reshape reality. A novel about sound as magic.
A tired London businessman returns to a Swiss village where children weave a web of starlight and dreams around their family. The book Uncle Paul wrote, and the basis of the play Starlight Express.
A lonely man back from years in the Canadian woods is drawn into the secret world of his sister's children. The gentle novel that started the Uncle Paul stories.
Three children and their uncle discover a day that slips between the ordinary ones, where time stands still and wonder takes over. A playful novel about seeing the world fresh.
Two school friends discover they shared a past life, and that an ancient ritual left unfinished still binds them. Blackwood's great novel of reincarnation.
In 1934, Blackwood began telling ghost stories on BBC radio, and later on television, to a whole new generation. He died in 1951, and his ashes were scattered in the Swiss Alps he loved.
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