: Algernon Blackwood
: Four Weird Tales
: Dead Dodo Classic Press
: 9781518307607
: 1
: CHF 0.70
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 217
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This collection assembles four of Blackwood's greatest stories: 'The Insanity of Jones,' 'The Man Who Found Out,' 'The Glamour of the Snow,' and 'Sand.'

 

The son of a preacher, Blackwood had a life-long interest in the supernatural, the occult, and spiritualism, and firmly believed that humans possess latent psychic powers. The autobiography Episodes Before Thirty (1923) tells of his lean years as a journalist in New York. In the late 1940s, Blackwood had a television program on the BBC on which he read . . . ghost stories!

THE MAN WHO FOUND OUT


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(A Nightmare)

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Professor Mark Ebor, the scientist, led a double life, and the only persons who knew it were his assistant, Dr. Laidlaw, and his publishers. But a double life need not always be a bad one, and, as Dr. Laidlaw and the gratified publishers well knew, the parallel lives of this particular man were equally good, and indefinitely produced would certainly have ended in a heaven somewhere that can suitably contain such strangely opposite characteristics as his remarkable personality combined.

For Mark Ebor, F.R.S., etc., etc., was that unique combination hardly ever met with in actual life, a man of science and a mystic.

As the first, his name stood in the gallery of the great, and as the second—but there came the mystery! For under the pseudonym