The Wendigo and Other Stories - Algernon Blackwood

The Wendigo and Other Stories

(Autor)

Aaron Worth (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
496 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-884888-2 (ISBN)
9,95 inkl. MwSt
The tales of Algernon Blackwood, in the view of many the greatest weird writer of them all, blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk.
'See!...The woods are alive! Already the Great Ones are there, and the dance will soon begin! The salve is here! Anoint yourself and come!'

One of the greatest writers of the strange and weird, Algernon Blackwood evolved from a teller of ghost stories to a pioneering master of such emergent fictional modes as cosmic horror and nature Gothic. In tales whose settings range from the eerie North Woods of Canada to the mysterious sands of the Egyptian desert, Blackwood blurs the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk, waiting for the chance to break through into our world.

This new selection of Blackwood's shorter fiction constitutes the most comprehensive critical edition of his work to date. Included here are such undisputed classics as 'The Wendigo', 'The Willows', and 'Ancient Sorceries', as well as two superbly unsettling novellas, 'The Man Whom the Trees Loved' and 'A Descent into Egypt', and ten other stories short and long, drawn from collections spanning Blackwood's long writing career. Aaron Worth's introduction and notes situate these tales in the context of Blackwood's own upbringing in an evangelical Victorian household, as well as in relation to such topics as late-imperial British history and the emergence of modern ecological thought.

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Aaron Worth is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, and author of Imperial Media (2014) as well as numerous articles on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature and culture. He has previously edited The Great God and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen (2018), Green Tea and Other Weird Stories by Sheridan Le Fanu (2020), and The Virgin of the Seven Daggers and Other Stories by Vernon Lee (2022) for Oxford World's Classics.

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Algernon Blackwood
The Wendigo and Other Stories
Explanatory Notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford World's Classics
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 195 mm
Gewicht 352 g
Themenwelt Literatur Fantasy / Science Fiction Science Fiction
Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Krimi / Thriller / Horror Horror
ISBN-10 0-19-884888-9 / 0198848889
ISBN-13 978-0-19-884888-2 / 9780198848882
Zustand Neuware
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