"Pan's Garden" by Algernon Blackwood. London: MacMillan & Co., 1912. First edition. Cover art by W. Graham Robertson
Fifteen stories of fantasy and horror from Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), one of the most prolific writers of horror stories in the history of the genre. In his lifetime, he wrote over 150 stories, at least a dozen novels, two plays and quite a few children’s books. Authors who have been influenced by his work include H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Evangeline Walton, Ramsey Campbell, George Allan England and Frank Belknap Long. Henry Miller chose Blackwood’s “The Bright Messenger” as “the most extraordinary novel on psychoanalysis, one that dwarf’s the subject.”
The fifteen stories in “Pan’s Garden” are: “The Man Whom the Trees Loved,” “The South Wind,” “The Sea Fit,” “The Attic,” “The Heath Fire,” “The Messenger,” “The Glamour of the Snow,” “The Return,” “Sand,” “The Transfer,” “Clairvoyance,” “The Golden Fly,” “Special Delivery,” “The Destruction of Smith,” and “The Temptation of the Clay.” The stories hadn’t appeared elsewhere and were original to this collection. They are unified by the theme of the Elements of Nature.
"Pan's Garden" by Algernon Blackwood. London: MacMillan & Co., 1912. First edition. Cover art by W. Graham Robertson
Fifteen stories of fantasy and horror from Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), one of the most prolific writers of horror stories in the history of the genre. In his lifetime, he wrote over 150 stories, at least a dozen novels, two plays and quite a few children’s books. Authors who have been influenced by his work include H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Evangeline Walton, Ramsey Campbell, George Allan England and Frank Belknap Long. Henry Miller chose Blackwood’s “The Bright Messenger” as “the most extraordinary novel on psychoanalysis, one that dwarf’s the subject.”
The fifteen stories in “Pan’s Garden” are: “The Man Whom the Trees Loved,” “The South Wind,” “The Sea Fit,” “The Attic,” “The Heath Fire,” “The Messenger,” “The Glamour of the Snow,” “The Return,” “Sand,” “The Transfer,” “Clairvoyance,” “The Golden Fly,” “Special Delivery,” “The Destruction of Smith,” and “The Temptation of the Clay.” The stories hadn’t appeared elsewhere and were original to this collection. They are unified by the theme of the Elements of Nature.