The Wendigo and Other Stories

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Algernon Blackwood Aaron Worth (Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Boston University)

The Wendigo and Other Stories

Algernon Blackwood, Aaron Worth (Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Boston University)

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Worlds Classics
23 November 2023

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Classic horror & ghost stories; Classic science fiction; Short stories

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'See!...

The woods are alive! Already the Great Ones are there, and the dance will soon begin! The salve is here! Anoint yourself and come!'

One of the greatest writers of the strange and weird, Algernon Blackwood evolved from a teller of ghost stories to a pioneering master of such emergent fictional modes as cosmic horror and nature Gothic. In tales whose settings range from the eerie North Woods of Canada to the mysterious sands of the Egyptian desert, Blackwood blurs the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk, waiting for the chance to break through into our world.

This new selection of Blackwood's shorter fiction constitutes the most comprehensive critical edition of his work to date. Included here are such undisputed classics as 'The Wendigo', 'The Willows', and 'Ancient Sorceries', as well as two superbly unsettling novellas, 'The Man Whom the Trees Loved' and 'A Descent into Egypt', and ten other stories short and long, drawn from collections spanning Blackwood's long writing career. Aaron Worth's introduction and notes situate these tales in the context of Blackwood's own upbringing in an evangelical Victorian household, as well as in relation to such topics as late-imperial British history and the emergence of modern ecological thought.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

By: Algernon Blackwood
Edited by: Aaron Worth (Associate Professor of Rhetoric Associate Professor of Rhetoric Boston University)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 352g
ISBN: 9780198848882
ISBN 10: 0198848889
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 23 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aaron Worth is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, and author of Imperial Media (2014) as well as numerous articles on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature and culture. He has previously edited The Great God and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen (2018), Green Tea and Other Weird Stories by Sheridan Le Fanu (2020), and The Virgin of the Seven Daggers and Other Stories by Vernon Lee (2022) for Oxford World's Classics.