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Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in World Literature)

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Connoisseurs of horror fiction, including H. P. Lovecraft, rate Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) as the finest such writer of all. What Arthur Conan Doyle was to mysteries, what Jane Austen was to comedies of manners, Blackwood was to supernatural horror literature -- he set the standard, was unsurpassed in originality, and reads as freshly while surprising and shocking the reader as much now as the day he wrote his remarkable work, leaving the likes of Stephen King, Clive Barker and Anne Rice in the dust.

Sadly, most of Blackwood's large output -- about 10 book-length novels, over 200 short stories and novelettes, and numerous essays, reviews, plays etc. -- are long out of print and can often only be found in large libraries and through used and antiquarian book suppliers. This volume, prepared by preeminent Blackwood scholar Mike Ashley, is an exhaustive listing and description of everything Blackwood ever had published or exists in known manuscript, plus the fullest biography of Blackwood ever written. (Ashley is currently researching for a much longer, book-length biography of Blackwood, but it won't include this extensive bibliographic material.)

Blackwood fans will find this fat volume indispensable for locating and organizing their reading of Blackwood, and newcomers will find this a priceless introduction and guide to the man who defined cosmic fiction. In either case, you'll find yourself turning to this book again and again.