Algernon Blackwood

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Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE, was a broadcaster, journalist, author, and short story writer, and he was one of the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre.

"His work is more consistently honorable than any other writer's except Dunsany's," the literary critic S. T. Joshi wrote. Incredible Adventures (1914) "could be the first bizarre collection of this or any other century" or perhaps any other century.

Life and work

Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (now part of south-east London and later a portion of north-west Kent). He lived at Crayford Manor House, Crayford, from 1871 to 1880, and was educated at Wellington College. Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, the father of the 6th Duke of Manchester, was a Post Office administrator; Harriet Dobbs, his mother, was the widow of the 6th Duke of Manchester. "But not devoid of genuine compassion," Peter Penzoldt's father, "had appallingly narrow religious convictions," his father said. He became interested in Buddhism and other eastern philosophy after reading the works of a Hindu sage who was left homeless at his parents' house. Blackwood spent time as a dairy farmer in Canada, where he also operated a hotel for six months as a newspaper reporter in New York City, bartender, model, businessman, and violin instructor. During his stay in Canada, he became one of the founding members of the Toronto Theosophical Society in February of 1891.

He was an occasional essayist for periodicals throughout his adult life. In his thirties, he returned to England and began to write stories about the supernatural. He was very popular, releasing at least ten original collections of short stories and then revealing them on radio and television. He also wrote 14 books, several children's books, and a number of plays, the bulk of which were produced but not published. As many of his stories reflect, he was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors. He joined The Ghost Club to satisfy his supernatural curiosity. He never married; he was a loner but also a cheerful company, according to his relatives.

"Blackwood's life mirrors his work more closely than that of any other ghost story writer," Jack Sullivan said. He was a combination of mystic and outdoorsman, although not steeped himself in occultism, such as Rosicrucianism or Buddhism, and he was not likely to be skiing or mountain climbing." Arthur Machen, a contemporary Blackwood, was a member of one of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's different factions. The Human Chord's Cabalistic themes influence his book.

Probably "The Willows" and "The Wendigo" are two of his best-known stories. He would also write stories for newspapers at short notice, often with the result that he was uncertain how many short stories he had written and there is no such figure. Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most popular work seeks less to frighten than to provoke a sense of awe. The Centaur, which comes to a conclusion with a traveller's sight of a herd of the mythical animals, and Julius LeVallon's book The Bright Messenger, which discuss reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution of human consciousness. Blackwood wrote to Peter Penzoldt in an email.

Blackwood's autobiography began in 1963, Episodes Before Thirty (1923), and Mike Ashley's biography "Starlight Man" is available (ISBN 0-7867-0928-6).

Blackwood died as a result of multiple strokes. Officially, his death on December 10th was due to cerebral thrombosis, with arteriosclerosis as a contributing factor. At the Golders Green crematorium, he was cremated. A few weeks later, his nephew carried his ashes to Saanenmöser Pass in the Swiss Alps, scattering them in the mountains that he had adored for more than forty years.

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