Tongues Of Fire And Other Sketches

Blackwood's original collection of 21 eerie stories and sketches, plus three previously uncollected stories that appear here for the first time in 100 years.

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 complete fictional 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) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Blackwood’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 14 novels, with individual contents tables * Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Children’s works such as SAMBO AND SNITCH are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare short story collections – explore the weird fiction of the master short story writer * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Blackwood’s autobiography EPISODES BEFORE THIRTY – discover Blackwood’s personal and literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with 3 short story collections, a rare play and revised texts CONTENTS: 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) Dudley & Gilderoy (1929) The Children’s Novels The Extra Day (1915) Sambo and Snitch (1927) The Fruit Stoners (1934) 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) Shocks (1935) The Doll and One Other (1946) 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)

Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 22 : Nos. 1-131 (Issued April, 1925 - April, 1926)

By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows," which Lovecraft singled out as "the single finest weird tale in literature"; "The Wendigo"; "The Insanity of Jones"; and "Sand." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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