Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBEwas an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures"may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 March 1869
soul way infinite
Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.
imagination darkness way
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.
slavery may individual
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
quality sensations
Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.
fall adventure past
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.
wise children speak
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.