Light is time, and the reversal of its effects is a forbidden art. While the effects of this spell are rather subtle, its foundations are a well-guarded secret. Includes weapons with exhausted durability. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Lost sorcery from Oolacile, land of ancient golden sorceries. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Ancient Sorceries And Other Stories (Mass Market Paperback) Published 2004 by Redwood Editions Mass Market Paperback, 250 pages Author(s): Algernon Blackwood. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including 'The Willows,' which Lovecraft singled out as 'the single finest weird tale in literature' 'The Wendigo' 'The Insanity of Jones' and 'Sand.'įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. An excellent collection A beautifully produced new deluxe edition of Blackwoods weirdest supernatural stories, including The Willows.

Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror.

By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood.

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