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Algernon Henry Blackwood

Male : Novelist & Short Story Writer. Emigrated to America in 1889, returning to England in 1899. Lived in Switzerland 1908-14 and became an undercover agent during the First World War.
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Kent

Date of Birth : 1869 Date of Death : 1951 Age : 82

Other Work : From 1934 he worked for the BBC

Education : Wellington & Edinburgh University
Macmillan unless stated
1906-1910
The Empty House & Other Ghost Stories
(1906 Eveleigh Nash) (1915 Donald C Vaughan)
The Listener & Other stories
(1907 Nash) (1914 Vaughan & Gomme)
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
(1908 Nash) (1909 J W Luce)
Jimbo : A Fantasy
(1909) (1909 Macmillan NY)
The Education of Uncle Paul
(1909) (1910 Holt)
The Human Chord
(1910) (1911 Macmillan NY)
The Lost Valley & Other Stories
(1910 Nash) (1914 Vaughan & Gomme)

1911-1920
The Centaur
(1911) (1912 Macmillan NY)
Pan's Garden : A Volume of Nature Stories
(1912) (1912 Macmillan NY) - W Graham Robertson
A Prisoner in Fairyland
(1913) (1913 Macmillan NY)
Ten Minute Stories
(1914 Murray) (1914 Dutton)
Incredible Adventures
(1914) (1914 Macmillan NY)
The Extra Day
(1915) (1915 Macmillan NY)
Julius Le Vallon
(1916 Cassell) (1916 Dutton)
The Wave : An Egyptian Aftermath
(1916) (1916 Dutton)
Day and Night Stories
(1917 Cassell) (1917 Dutton)
The Promise of Air
(1918) (1918 Dutton)
The Garden of Survival
(1918) (1918 Dutton)
Karma
(1918 Macmillan) (1918 Dutton) - play with Violet Pearn

1921-1930
The Bright Messenger
(1921 Cassell) (1922 Dutton)
The Wolves of God & Other Fey Stories
(1921 Cassell) (1921 Dutton) - with Winifred Wilson
Episodes Before Thirty
(1923 Cassell) (1924 Dutton) - autobiography
Tongues of Fire & Other Sketches
(1924 Herbert Jenkins)
The Willows & other Queer Tales
(1925 Collins)
Through the Crack
(1925 Samuel French) - play with V Pearn
Ancient Sorceries & Other Tales
(1927 Collins)
The Dance of Death & Other Tales
(1927 Jenkins) (1928 Dial Press)
Sambo and Snitch
(1927 Blackwell) (1927 Appleton)
Mr Cupboard
(1928 Blackwell)
Dudley and Gilderoy : A Nonsense
(1929 Benn) (1929 Dutton)
Strange Stories
(1929 Heinemann) (1976 Arno Press)
Full Circle
(1929 Mathews and Marrot) - short story. 530 signed
Short Stories of Today and Yesterday
(1930 Harrap)
By Underground
(1930 Blackwell)

1931-1940
The Parrot and the - Cat !
(1931 Blackwell)
The Willows and Other Queer Tales
(1932 Collins)
The Italian Conjuror
(1932 Blackwell)
Maria - of England - in the Rain
(1933 Blackwell)
Sergeant Poppett and Policeman James
(1934 Blackwell)
Adventures Before Thirty
(1934 Cape) - revision of earlier autobiography
The Fruit Stoners
(1934 Grayson) (1935 Dutton)
The fruit Stoners - Extract
(1935 Blackwell) - Marian Allen
Shocks
(1935 Grayson) (1936 Dutton)
How the Circus Came to Tea
(1936 Blackwell) - L R Brightwell
The Tales of Algernon Blackwood
(1938 Secker) (1939 Dutton)

1941 Onwards
Selected Tales of Algernon Blackwood
(1941 Penguin)
The Adventures of Dudley and Gilderoy adapted by Marion B Cothren
(1941 Dutton) (1941 Faber)
Selected Short Stories
(1945 Armed Services Editions, US Pb)
The Doll and One Other
(1946 Arkham House US)
Tales of the Uncanny & Supernatural
(1949 Nevill) (1974 Castle Books)
Episodes Before Thirty
(1949 Nevill) - new illus edition of autobiography
The Wendigo
(1952 Lilliput) - Mervyn Peake
In the Realm of Terror
(1957 Pantheon US)
Selected Tales of Algernon Blackwood
(1964 John Baker)
Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre
(1967 Hamlyn)
Ancient Sorceries & Other Tales
(1968 Penguin)
The Best Supernatural Tales of Algernon Blackwood
(1973 Causeway US)
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
(1973 Dover US)
Tales of Terror and Darkness
(1977 Hamlyn)
Tales of the Supernatural
(1983 Boydell)
A Mysterious House
(1987 Tragara Press) - 125 numbered

READING
John Robert Colombo : Blackwood's Books - A Bibliography
(1981 Hounslow Press, Toronto)
Mike Ashley : Algernon Blackwood - A Bio-Bibliography
(c1987 Greenwood Press, London)
Mike Ashley : The Starlight Man
(2001 Constable £19.99)