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Algernon Henry Blackwood 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. The literary critic S. T. 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…
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culture · English journalist and author (1869–1951) · writer · novelist · journalist · reporter · playwright · also Algernon Blackwood, Algernon Henry Blackwood, Blackwood
Born 14 March 1869 · Died 10 December 1951 · Q507991
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especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
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“Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.”
“especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.”
Died 1951-12-10.
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Born 1869-03-14.
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