Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories 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

the Siberia of Mouse Island

Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize

and a romantic 200-acre park in which wine-lovers can be lost for hours

and their son needs a mother

sinister and genuinely thought-provoking

even if it means demolish everything—and everyone—in his path

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the dinosaur gets curious and follows his friend Danny to school

No training could prepare her for what her kidnappers really want

Unlike other books on the history of dentistry

The style of writing is eloquent and prescriptive: the author keen to impart good habits as well as good cooking

and surrounded by a fiercely military environment