![]() ![]() ![]() According to Peter Penzoldt, his father, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas." After he read the work of a Hindu sage left behind at his parents' house, he developed an interest in Buddhism and other eastern philosophies. His father, Sir Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, was a Post Office administrator his mother, Harriet Dobbs, was the widow of the 6th Duke of Manchester. Between 18, he lived at Crayford Manor House, Crayford and he was educated at Wellington College. Life and work īlackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (now part of south-east London, then part of north-west Kent). Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century". ![]() The Centaur, " The Willows", " The Wendigo"Īlgernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |