{"product_id":"ancient-sorceries-and-other-weird-stories-isbn-9780142180150","title":"Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories","description":"By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, \u003ci\u003eAncient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories\u003c\/i\u003e showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including \"The Willows,\" which Lovecraft singled out as \"the single finest weird tale in literature\"; \"The Wendigo\"; \"The Insanity of Jones\"; and \"Sand.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird StoriesIntroduction by S. T. Joshi\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003eSmith: An Episode in a Lodging-House\u003cbr\u003eThe Willows\u003cbr\u003eThe Insanity of Jones\u003cbr\u003eAncient Sorceries\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Found Out\u003cbr\u003eThe Wendigo\u003cbr\u003eThe Glamour of the Snow\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Whom the Trees Loved\u003cbr\u003eSand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplanatory Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\"Of the quality of Mr Blackwood's genius there can be no dispute; for no one has ever approached the skill, seriousness, and minute fidelity whith which he records the overtones of strangeness in ordinary things and experiences.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—H.P. Lovecraft\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To many, including H.P. Lovecraft, ‘The Willows’ is the finest story in the canon of supernatural fiction. (…) Blackwood himself is, arguably, the central figure in the British supernatural literature of the twentieth century.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eS. T. Joshi\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1999), and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood’s \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAncient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Weird Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1990), \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1995), \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eH. P. Lovecraft: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1996), and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Modern Weird Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Supernatural Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302214488293,"sku":"NP9780142180150","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142180150.jpg?v=1767721547","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ancient-sorceries-and-other-weird-stories-isbn-9780142180150","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}