The Whisperers and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Mike ... - 9780712354264

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The Whisperers and Other StoriesA Lifetime of the Supernatural\nAuthor(s): Algernon Blackwood, Mike Ashley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: British Library Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: British Library Publishing\nISBN-13: 9780712354264, 978-0712354264\nSynopsis\n'Back from the shouting floor and ceiling came the chorus of images that stormed and clamoured for expression. Jones lay still and listened; he let them come. There was nothing else to do.'\n\nAlgernon Blackwood was one of the most influential writers of twentieth-century weird and supernatural fiction. He once told a correspondent that every story he wrote was based on either a personal experience or that of someone he knew, and thus the vast collection of short stories and novels published in his lifetime can be seen to form a kind of autobiography. In this collection of his most atmospheric and uneasy tales, Mike Ashley provides the facts of Blackwood's life which inspired each story - including experiences as an inte.