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    A Woman's Ghost: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    A Woman's Ghost: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    A Woman's Ghost: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    A Woman's Ghost: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

    By Algernon Blackwood and Varla Ventura

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    Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual.

    Master of horror Algernon Blackwood brings this chilling tale of a woman, her ghost, and the surprising love between them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9781619400672
    A Woman's Ghost: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    Algernon Blackwood

    Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English journalist, novelist, and short story writer. Born in Shooter’s Hill, he developed an interest in Hinduism and Buddhism at a young age. After a youth spent travelling and taking odd jobs—Canadian dairy farmer, bartender, model, violin teacher—Blackwood returned to England and embarked on a career as a professional writer. Known for his connection to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Blackwood gained a reputation as a master of occult storytelling, publishing such popular horror stories as “The Willows” and “The Wendigo.” He also wrote several novels, including Jimbo: A Fantasy (1909) and The Centaur (1911). Throughout his life, Blackwood was a passionate outdoorsman, spending much of his time skiing and mountain climbing. Recognized as a pioneering writer of ghost stories, Blackwood influenced such figures as J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, and Henry Miller.

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      A Woman's Ghost - Algernon Blackwood

      You Can Be My Master of Horror Anytime

      What I wouldn't give to be the woman in this story. Not because of what happens to her, but more because of the storyteller: Algernon Blackwood.

      Perhaps one of the most prolific horror writers of all time and well deserving of the title Modern Master of Supernatural Horror (so dubbed by the one and only H.P. Lovecraft), Blackwood was not always the horror-fiction god that we know him as today. His earlier careers included farmer, essayist, journalist for The New York Times, private secretary, bartender, model, businessman, and even violin teacher. He spent a good deal of his twenties and thirties exploring the United States and Canada. When he moved home to his native England, he was already in his late thirties, and it was only then that he began to write tales of terror.

      In his lifetime he penned more than a dozen novels, several plays, more than thirty short-story collections, and nearly two hundred short stories. The vast majority of these were horror and supernatural based, though he did have a handful of children's stories and novels published as well.

      I imagine myself in 1907 England, my long dress gliding across the floorboards of the parlor as I extend a gloved hand to make Mr. Blackwood's

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