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Ancient Sorceries

A master of weird fiction, Algernon Blackwood penned numerous short ghost stories inspired by his love of the outdoors and interest in the occult. Four of his works are contained in this collection: ‘Ancient Sorceries’, recalling a nightmarish visit to a remote French village with oddly feline inhabitants; ‘The Listener’, the epistolary tale of a haunted narrator; ‘The Sea Fit’, following an old sea captain’s obsession with the ocean to a dramatic conclusion; and ‘The Willows’, the unnerving account of a camping trip on an island whose forest is home to mysteries entities. Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on upper or lower trimmed edge.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Pushkin
  • Year: 2022
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 204x136mm
  • ISBN: 9781782278511
  • Condition: New - Very Good
  • Weight: 0.3kg
Product code:
541446
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'Of the quality of Mr. Blackwood's genius there can be no dispute' H.P. Lovecraft


A British traveller in France stops in a remote French hill town with some very unusual inhabitants and soon finds himself unable to leave; a scholar staying in a lodging house feels himself observed by a malevolent presence; two friends on a canoeing trip spend a night on a lonely willow-covered island in the middle of the Danube, haunted by the strange trees and sinister shapes in the water...


Algernon Blackwood is one of Britain's greatest ever proponents of weird and supernatural stories. This collection contains four of his most unnervingly curious tales: 'Ancient Sorceries', 'The Listener', 'The Sea Fit' and 'The Willows'.

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