English author (1869-1951)
It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
"The Wendigo", The Lost Valley and Other Stories
The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or rejection.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Willows
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
Great revelations of nature, of course, never fail to impress in one way or another, and I was no stranger to moods of the kind. Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own. But all these, at one point or another, somewhere link on intimately with human life and human experience. They stir comprehensible, even if alarming, emotions. They tend on the whole to exalt.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Willows