Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas." Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and, throughout his adult life, an occasional essayist for various periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was very successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also wrote fourteen novels, several children's books, and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors, and many of his stories reflect this. Lovecraft wrote of Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerful story "The Willows," which effectively describes another dimension impinging upon our own, was reckoned by Lovecraft to be not only "foremost of all" Blackwood's tales but the best "weird tale" of all time. Among his thirty-odd books, Blackwood wrote a series of stories and short novels published as John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908), which featured a "psychic detective" who combined the skills of a Sherlock Holmes and a psychic medium. Blackwood also wrote light fantasy and juvenile books. The son of a preacher, Blackwood had a life-long interest in the supernatural, the occult, and spiritualism, and firmly believed that humans possess latent psychic powers. The autobiography Episodes Before Thirty (1923) tells of his lean years as a journalist in New York. In the late 1940s, Blackwood had a television program on the BBC on which he read . . . ghost stories!
Series
Books
Ten Minute Stories
1914
The Dance Of Death And Other Stories
1927
The Willows
Supernatural Stories; Tales of Ghosts and Mystery - Haunting Tales: Unveiling the Secrets of The Willows and Other Supernatural Stories by Algernon Blackwood
2017
The First Algernon Blackwood Megapack
36 Classic Tales of the Supernatural
2013
Los mitos de Cthulhu
1969
The Nemesis Of Fire
2004
The Singular Death of Morton
2013
The Second Generation
1912
The Sacrifice
2015
The Wendigo and Other Stories
2024
A Prisoner in Fairyland
1913
Ancient Sorceries
2003
Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre
1962
An Egyptian Hornet
1915
The Insanity of Jones
1907
The Other Wing
2004
The Terror of the Twins
2009
Classic Tales of Horror
2015
The Wood of the Dead
1906
Our Haunted Shores
Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles
2022
The Best Supernatural Tales of Algernon Blackwood
1973
The Unknown. Weird Writings, 1900-1937
2023
A Descent Into Egypt
1914
Day and Night Stories
1917
Episodes Before Thirty
2002
Incredible Adventures
1914
The Wendingo
2023
Max Hensig
1907
Accessory Before The Fact
2013
Three John Silence Stories
1908
Secret Worship
1908
The Colour Out of Space
Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird
2002
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories
2000
The Olive
2023
The Listener And Other Stories
1907
A Suspicious Gift
2017
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
1973
The Willows and The Wendigo
2013
The Woman's Ghost Story
2014
Spirits of the Season
Christmas Hauntings
2019
The Occupant of the Room
2015
Tales of Terror and Darkness
1977
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
2001
Smith
An Episode In A Lodging House
1906
The Lure of the Unknown
Essays on the Strange
2023
The Complete John Silence Stories
1908
The Empty House
1906
Skeleton Lase An Episode in Camp
2017
The Willows, The Wendigo, and Other Horrors
The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of … of Murder, Mystery, Horror, and Haunting)
2015
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror
2021
The Centaur
1911
A Psychical Invasion
1908
The Damned
1914
With Intent to Steal
1906
The Ghost Slayers
Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection
2022
The Touch of Pan & Other Stories
An Original Compilation
1907
LibriVox Ghost Story Collection 001
2006
Great Ghost Stories
1993
Murder Most Foul
The Collection: Eight Classic Murder Stories
2004
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
1987
The Insanity of Jones and Other Tales
1964
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror
120+ authors and 1000+ stories
2018
Tales of Terror
2007
The Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unexpurgated Edition)
2010
The Willows
1907
The Moons At Your Door
2015
The Glamour of the Snow
1912
The Wendigo
1910
Weird Woods
Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain
2020
The Attic
2025
The Man Who Found Out
2009
The Damned
Collector's Edition - Algernon Blackwood
2013
Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural
1950
The Kit Bag
1908
Running Wolf
1920
A Case of Eavesdropping
2017
The Transfer
1912
Three Supernatural Classics
"The Willows," "The Wendigo" and "The Listener"
2008
The Camp of the Dog
1908
Sand
2004
The Listener
1907
BRIGHT MESSENGER
1921
The Man Whom the Trees Loved
1912
The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories
1921
Pan's Garden
A Volume Of Nature Stories
1912
Classic Horror Stories
2015
Ghost Stories
Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection
2023
A Haunted Island
1899
The Human Chord
1910
The Extra Day
1915
Ancient Lights
2018
A Victim Of Higher Space
2014
The Lost Valley and Other Stories
1910
Keeping His Promise
2017
Bienvenidos al Sabbath
Antología de relatos de satanismo y brujería
2017
