Tales of the Supernatural (Bookmasters)

Algernon Blackwood holds a very special position among the great writers of supernatural fiction. His range of subjects extends from sheer terror to gentle fantasy and chilling ghost stories, but he excels above all in the world of the supernatural, the haunting and disturbing moment when nature begins to assert a psychic power over the ways of men. As Mike Ashley writes in his introduction, "Blackwood's whole world revolved around Nature". He had led an adventurous life as a traveller in Canada and elsewhere, and only became a writer in his late thirties. This volume contains a selection of the best of his work, including such classics as "The Willows" and "The Wendigo".