Gabriel Franchere

Gabriel Franchere

Gabriel Franchre (17861863) was a French Canadian author and explorer of the Pacific Northwest. Franchre was a native of Montreal and joined the Astor Expedition as merchant's apprentice, arriving at Fort Astoria on the Tonquin. After Astoria was sold to the North West Company, Franchre returned to Montreal overland in 1814. He was employed for a time by John Jacob Astor in Montreal. He wrote Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, which was published in 1851. Originally written in French, the untranslated version was one of Washington Irving's sources for his book Astoria.

Gabriel Franchere's Books:

[Narrative Of A Voyage To The Northwest Coast Of America In The Years 1811 1812 1813 And 1814 Or T]

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Hanns Heinz Ewers

Hanns Heinz Ewers

Hanns Heinz Ewers (3 November 1871 in Dsseldorf 12 June 1943 in Berlin) was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels about the adventures of Frank Braun, a character modeled on himself. The best known of these is Alraune.

Hanns Heinz Ewers's Books:

[Edgar Allan Poe]

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Dean Conant Worcester

Dean Conant Worcester (1866-1924)

Dean Conant Worcester, D. Sc., F.R.G.S. (October 1, 1866 - 1924) was an American zoologist, public official, and authority on the Philippines, born at Thetford, Vermont, and educated at the University of Michigan (A.B., 1889). From 1899 to 1901 he was a member of the United States Philippine Commission; thenceforth until 1913 he served as secretary of the interior for the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands. In 1910, he founded the Philippine General Hospital

Dean Worcester's Books:

[The Philippines Past And Present vol 1 Of 2]

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Isaac Kaufmann Funk

Isaac Kaufmann Funk

Isaac Kauffman Funk (18391912) was an American Lutheran minister, editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer. He was the co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls Company, the father of author Wilfred J. Funk, and the grandfather of author Peter Funk. Wilfred Funk founded his own publishing company "Wilfred Funk, Inc. ", and wrote the "Word Power" feature in Reader's Digest from 1945. The feature was carried on by Peter Funk from 1962-1998.

Wes Funk's Books:

[Dead Rock Stars]

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George Parsons Lathrop

George Parsons Lathrop

George Parsons Lathrop was a poet, novelist and brother of Francis Lathrop. He was educated at New York and Dresden, Germany, when he returned to New York, and decided on a literary career. Going to England on a visit he was married in London, 11 September 1871, to Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In 1875 he became associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and remained in that position two years, leaving it for newspaper work in Boston and New York.

George Parsons Lathrop's Books:

[Dreams And Days | Rose And Roof Tree]

Clifford Whittingham Beers

Clifford Whittingham Beers

Clifford Whittingham Beers (1876 1943) was the founder of the American mental hygiene movement. Beers was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Ida and Robert Beers on March 30, 1876. He was one of five children, all of whom would suffer from psychological distress and would die in mental institutions, including Beers himself (see "Clifford W. Beers, Advocate for the Insane"). He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1897.

Clifford Whittingham Beers's Books:

[A Mind That Found Itself]

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (August 6, 1862 - August 3, 1932), was a British historian and political activist. He led most of his life at Cambridge, where he wrote a dissertation on Neoplatonism before becoming a fellow. He was closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group. A noted pacifist, Dickinson protested against Britain's involvement in World War I. His essay on the League of Nations Covenant within the Treaty of Versailles helped to shape public opinion towards the League.

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson's Books:

[Appearances | The Greek View Of Life]

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Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816)

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 - June 25, 1816) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Brackenridge was born in Kintyre, Scotland, a village near Campbeltown.

Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Books:

[The Battle Of Bunkers Hill]

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Herman Heijermans

Herman Heijermans

Herman Heijermans (December 3, 1864, Rotterdam - November 22, 1924, Zandvoort), was a Dutch writer. Heijermans grew up in a liberal Jewish family as the fifth of 11 children of Herman Heijermans Sr. and Matilda Moses Spiers. In the Algemeen Handelsblad daily, he published a series of sketches of Jewish family life under the pseudonym of Samuel Falkland, which were collected in volume form. His novels and tales include Trinette (1892), Fles (1893), Kamertjeszonde (2 vols, 1896), Interieurs (1897), Diamantstad (2 vols, 1903). He created great interest by his play Op Hoop van Zegen (1900), an indictment of the exploitation of sea fishermen in the Netherlands at the turn of the century, represented at the Thtre Antoine in Paris, and in English by the Stage Society as The Good Hope. His other plays are: Dora Kremer (1893), Ghetto (1898), Het zevende Gebod (1899), Het Pantser (1901), Ora et labora (1901), and numerous one-act pieces. A Case of Arson, an English version of the one-act play Brand in de Jonge Jan, was notable for the impersonation (1904 and 1905) by Henri de Vries of all the seven witnesses who appear as characters.

Herman Heijermans's Books:

[Gevleugelde Daden]

Edward Henry Peple

Edward Henry Peple

Edward Henry Peple (August 10, 1869 1924) was an American playwright.

Edward Peple's Books:

[A Night Out | The Littlest Rebel]

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Finley Peter Dunne

Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)

Finley Peter Dunne (July 10, 1867 April 24, 1936) was a Chicago-based U.S. author, writer and humorist. He published Mr. Dooley in Peace and War, a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches, in 1898. The fictional Mr. Dooley expounded upon political and social issues of the day from his South Side Chicago Irish pub and he spoke with the thick verbiage and accent of an Irish immigrant from County Roscommon. Dunne's sly humor and political acumen won the support of President Theodore Roosevelt, a frequent target of Mr. Dooley's barbs. Indeed Dunne's sketches became so popular and such a litmus test of public opinion that they were read each week at White House cabinet meetings.

Finley Peter Dunne's Books:

[Mr Dooley In Peace And In War | Mr Dooley In The Hearts Of His Countrymen | Mr Dooley Philosophy | Mr Dooley Says | Observations By Mr Dooley]

Grace King

Grace King (1852-1932)

Grace Elizabeth King (November 29, 1852 - January 12, 1932) was an American author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, and a leader in historical and literary activities. Born in New Orleans into an aristocratic family that had been impoverished by the American Civil War, she studied under Charles Gayarr and eventually found her living in writing; among her subjects were other women who had been put in the same situation. In 1915 she was awarded an honorary degree in letters from Tulane University. Her many literary friends and acquaintances included Mark Twain and Edmund Wilson. She is buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. Grace King High School on Grace King Place in Metairie, Louisiana, is named in her honor. The Residential Life Administration building at Louisiana State University is also named after her.

Grace King's Books:

[Balcony Stories | Monsieur Motte]

Charles Sheldon

Charles Sheldon

Charles Monroe Sheldon (February 26, 1857 in Wellsville, New York - February 24, 1946) was an American minister in the Congregational churches and leader of the Social Gospel movement. His novel, In His Steps, introduced the principle of "What Would Jesus Do" which articulated an approach to Christian theology that became popular at the turn of the 20th Century and had a revival almost one hundred years later.

Charles Sheldon's Books:

[In His Steps | Robert Hardy Seven Days | The Crucifixion Of Philip Strong | The High Calling | Howard Chase Red Hill Kansas]

John Henry Baker

John Henry Baker (1936-now)

John Henry Baker, Ph.D. (born 1936) is an American author and professor Emeritus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA. He is author of "Urban Politics in America", Copyright 1971 Charles Scribner's Sons.

Henry Baker's Books:

[The Colored Inventor]

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Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry (1873-1907)

Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873 - 1 November 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side. Best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles. He wrote plays, novels, poetry, essays and speculative journalism. His texts present some pioneering work in the field of absurdist literature. Sometimes grotesque or misunderstood (e.g. the opening line in his play Ubu Roi, "Merdre!", has been translated into English as "Pshit!", "Shitteth!", "Shittr!", "Shikt!", "Shrit!", "Pschitt!", and "Shitsky!"), he invented a pseudoscience called 'Pataphysics.

Alfred Jarry's Books:

[Ubu Roi]

Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson (May 19, 1794 - March 17, 1860) was a British writer.

Anna Brownell Jameson's Books:

[The Diary Of An Ennuyee]

Fulton J Sheen

Fulton J Sheen (1895-1979)

Fulton John Sheen, born Peter John Sheen (May 8, 1895 December 9, 1979) was an American archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. His cause for canonization for sainthood was officially opened in 2002, and so he is now referred to as a "Servant of God". Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in 1919, Sheen quickly became a renowned theologian, earning the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy in 1923. He went on to teach theology and philosophy as well as acting as a parish priest before being appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in 1951. He held this position until 1966 when he was made the Bishop of Rochester. Sheen held this position for three years before resigning and being made the Archbishop of the Titular See of Newport, Wales. For 20 years he hosted the night-time radio program The Catholic Hour (19301950) before moving to television and presenting Life Is Worth Living (19511957). Sheen's final presenting role was on the syndicated The Fulton Sheen Program (19611968) with a format very similar to that of the earlier Life is Worth Living show. For this work, Sheen won an Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality. Starting in 2009, his shows were being re-broadcast on the EWTN and the Trinity Broadcasting Network's Church Channel cable networks. Due to his contribution to televised preaching Sheen is often referred to as one of the first televangelists.

A Fulton's Books:

[Home Pork Making]

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Appleton Milo Harmon

Appleton Milo Harmon

Appleton Milo Harmon (May 29, 1820 - February 27, 1877) was an early member of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a leading pioneer of the migration to Salt Lake City and the settlement of Utah Territory. Harmon was born in Coneant Pennsylvania, the son of Jesse Pierce Harmon and Annie Barnes, he married Elmeda Stringham in 1846.

Jim Harmon's Books:

[Measure For A Loner | The Last Place On Earth | The Planet With No Nightmare]

Florence Caddy

Florence Caddy (1837-1923)

Florence Caddy (1837 1923) was an English writer. She was born in Middlesex, England 1837, as Florence Tompson. She married John Turner Caddy in 1857 in London and had five children, John Francis in 1857, Florence in 1863, Arnold in 1866, Hermione Helena in 1869 and Adrian in 1879. Her husband died in 1902 and she died in 1923 at Plymouth.

Florence Caddy's Books:

[Household Organization]

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Henri Franois Alphonse Esquiros

Henri Franois Alphonse Esquiros

Henri-Franois-Alphonse Esquiros (May 23, 1812 May 12, 1876), French writer, was born in Paris. He usually wrote as Alphonse Esquiros. After some minor publications he produced L'Evangile du peuple (1840), an exposition on the life and character of Jesus as a social reformer. This work was considered an offence against religion and decency, and Esquiros was fined and imprisoned. He was elected in 1850 as a social democrat to the Legislative Assembly, but was exiled in 1851 for his opposition to the Second French Empire. Returning to France in 1869 he was again a member of the Legislative Assembly, and in 1876 was elected to the senate. He died at Versailles on the 12th of May 1876. He turned to account his residence in England in L'Angleterre et la vie anglaise (5 vols., 1859-1869), portions of which were also published in English, e.g. Cornwall and its Coasts (1865). Among his numerous works on social subjects may be noted Histoire des Montagnards (2 vols., 1847); Paris, ou Les sciences, les institutions, et les moeurs au XIXe siecle (2 vols., 1847); and Histoire des martyrs de la libert (1851).

Alphonse Esquiros's Books:

[Histoire Des Montagnards]

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Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch (1917-1994)

Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 September 23, 1994) was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction and, perhaps most influentially, horror fiction. He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle. H. P. Lovecraft was Bloch's mentor and one of the first to seriously encourage his talent. He was a contributor to pulp magazines such as Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolific screenwriter. He was the recipient of the Hugo Award (for his story "That Hell-Bound Train"), the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He served a term as president of the Mystery Writers of America. Robert Bloch was also a major contributor to science fiction fanzines and fandom in general. In the 1940s, he created the humorous character Lefty Feep in a story for Fantastic Adventures. He also worked for a time in local vaudeville and tried to break into writing for nationally-known performers. He was a good friend of the science fiction writer Stanley G. Weinbaum. In the 1960s, he wrote three scripts for Star Trek. In 2008, The Library of America selected Blochs story The Shambles of Ed Gein for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.

Robert Bloch's Books:

[This Crowded Earth]

Brenda Clough

Brenda Clough

Brenda W. Clough is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

A Clough's Books:

[Plutarch Lives]

John Mandeville

John Mandeville

"Jehan de Mandeville", translated as "Sir John Mandeville", is the name claimed by the compiler of a singular book of supposed travels, written in Anglo-Norman French, and published between 1357 and 1371. By aid of translations into many other languages it acquired extraordinary popularity.

Sir John Mandeville's Books:

[The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville]

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Effie Crockett

Effie Crockett (1857-1940)

Effie Crockett (1857 - January 7, 1940), also known as Effie I. Canning, also known as Effie C. Carlton, was an American actress. She is credited with having written and composed the lullaby "Rock-a-bye Baby"; by some accounts she created the song in 1872 while babysitting. Because of "Rock-a-bye Baby", she is credited in over 100 films, many made decades after her death.

W Crockett's Books:

[In The Border Country]

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James Hammond Trumbull

James Hammond Trumbull

James Hammond Trumbull (December 20, 1821 - August 5, 1897) was an American scholar and philologist. He was born in Stonington, Connecticut. He studied at Tracy's Academy in Norwich and at Yale University from 1838, but ill-health prevented his graduation, he was enrolled in 1850 and received an honorary LLD in 1871. He settled in Hartford and was assistant-secretary of state of Connecticut in 1847-1852, Connecticut state librarian in 1854, assistant-secretary again in 1858-1861, and (Republican) Secretary of the State in 1861-1866. He was a prominent member of the Connecticut Historical Society, of which he was president from 1863 to 1889. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1872. He died in Hartford. His works include a number about the history of Connecticut, such as Historical Notes on some Provisions of the Connecticut Statutes (1860-1861) and The True Blue Laws of Connecticut (1876). His studies of Native American dialects led to The Composition of Indian Geographical Names (1870), The Best Methods of Studying the Indian Languages (1871), Indian Names of Places in Connecticut (1881) and other similar works. One of his brothers was the author Henry Clay Trumbull, and one of his sisters was the author and entomologist Annie Trumbull Slosson.

J Hammond Trumbull's Books:

[The Composition Of Indian Geographical Names | The Defence Of Stonington connecticut Against A British]

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Wenceslau De Moraes

Wenceslau De Moraes

Wenceslau de Moraes (May 30, 1854 - Lisbon) - (July 1, 1929 - Tokushima), sometimes spelled Venceslau de Morais, was a Portuguese writer whose works were steeped in orientalism and exoticism, particularly the culture of Japan. A translator of Haiku, his verse was also influenced by Symbolism.

Wenceslau De Moraes's Books:

[Paisagens Da China E Do Japo]

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Alan Doyle

Alan Doyle (1969-now)

Alan Thomas Doyle (born May 17, 1969) is a Canadian musician and actor, best known for his work as one of the lead singers of Celtic band Great Big Sea. He writes about his experiences in a semi-regular blog called "Alan's FTR" (meaning From The Road) on the band's website.

Tom Doyle's Books:

[Hooking Up]

Frederick William Thomas

Frederick William Thomas

Frederick William Thomas was an American writer. His works include The Emigrant, Or, Reflections While Descending the Ohio (1832), a book of poetry about the Ohio River region; Clinton Bradshaw; or, The Adventures of a Lawyer (1835) (famous for its courtroom scene); East and West (1836), set in western Pennsylvania; and Howard Pinckney (1840), a detective story. He maintained a correspondence with Edgar Allan Poe and became his closest confidante.

Frederick William Thomas's Books:

[The Emigrant]

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Aidan Dunne

Aidan Dunne

A graduate of the National College of Art and Design, Aidan Dunne was art critic of In Dublin magazine, the Sunday Press and the Sunday Tribune. Currently visual arts critic of the Irish Times, Aidan has written extensively on Irish art, with essays on Michael Mulcahy, Hughie O'Donoghue, Patrick Swift and Jennifer Trouton

F Dunne's Books:

[Mr Dooley On The Pursuit Of Riches]

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Emily Post

Emily Post (1872-1960)

Emily Post (October 27, 1872 September 25, 1960) was an American author on etiquette.

Emily Post's Books:

[The Market]

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999)

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook. Her first child, David R. Bradley, and her brother, Paul Edwin Zimmer were also published science fiction and fantasy authors in their own right.

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Books:

[The Colors Of Space | The Door Through Space | The Planet Savers | Year Of The Big Thaw]

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John Cleland

John Cleland

John Cleland (baptised 24 September 1709 - 23 January 1789) was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. John Cleland was the oldest son of William Cleland (1673/4 - 1741) and Lucy Cleland (ne DuPass). He was born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but grew up in London, where his father was first an officer in the British Army and then a civil servant. William Cleland was a friend to Alexander Pope, and Lucy Cleland was a friend or acquaintance of both Pope, Viscount Bolingbroke, Chesterfield, and Horace Walpole. The family possessed good finances and moved among the finest literary and artistic circles of London. John Cleland entered Westminster School in 1721, but he left or was expelled in 1723. His departure was not for financial reasons, but whatever misbehaviour or allegation had led to his departure is unknown. Historian J. H. Plumb speculates that Cleland's puckish and quarrelsome nature was to blame, but, whatever caused Cleland to leave, he entered the British East India Company after leaving school. He began as a soldier and worked his way up into the civil service of the company and lived in Bombay from 1728 to 1740. He returned to London when recalled by his father, who was dying. Upon William's death, the estate went to Lucy for administration. She, in turn, did not choose to support John (and Cleland's two brothers had finished at Westminster and gone on to support themselves).

John Cleland's Books:

[Fanny Hill Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure]

Benjamin Keach

Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)

Benjamin Keach (29 February 1640 - 18 July 1704) was a Particular Baptist preacher in London whose name was given to Keach's Catechism.

Benjamin Keach's Books:

[The Travels Of True Godliness]

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George Birkbeck Norman Hill

George Birkbeck Norman Hill

George Birkbeck Norman Hill (June 7, 1835 - February 24, 1903), English editor and author, son of Arthur Hill, headmaster of Bruce Castle school, was born at Tottenham, Middlesex. He dropped his third name, Norman, publishing as just George Birkbeck Hill; to family and friends he was known as Birkbeck, not as George. Arthur Hill, with his brothers Rowland Hill, the postal reformer and Matthew Davenport Hill, afterwards recorder of Birmingham had worked out a system of education which was to exclude compulsion of any kind. The school at Bruce Castle, of which Arthur Hill was head master, was founded to carry into execution their theories, known as the Hazelwood system, after Hazelwood School, Birmingham, that preceded it. George Birkbeck Hill was educated in his father's school and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he made lasting friendships with Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. It was also at Oxford that he began his writing career, contributing articles to William Fulford's Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. HIll suffered a serious attack of typhoid fever in 1856 which left him in a delicate state of health. Consequently, he only received an 'honorary' fourth class degree in 1858, although he was later awarded a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1866 and a Doctor of Civil Law in 1871 in recognition of his contribution to English letters. In 1858 Hill began to teach at Bruce Castle school, and from 1868 to 1877 was headmaster. He married Annie Scott, the sister of a friend from his schooldays, on 29 December 1858. Partly to relieve what he felt to be the tedium of running the school, Hill returned to writing and reviewing. In 1869, he became a regular contributor to the Saturday Review, with which he remained in connection until 1884. On his retirement from teaching he devoted himself to the study of English 18th century literature, and established his reputation as the most learned commentator on the works of Samuel Johnson. Remaining true to his family's radical roots, Hill was a strong supporter of the Liberal Party and actively campaigned on behalf of Gladstone in the mid 1880s. He settled at Oxford in 1887, but from 1891 onwards his winters were usually spent abroad for his health. He died at Hampstead, London

Birkbeck Hill's Books:

[Life Of Johnson Vol 2 | Life Of Johnson Vol 3]

Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)

Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 - 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "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 collection of this or any other century".

Algernon Blackwood's Books:

[A Prisoner In Fairyland | Jimbo | Sand | The Centaur | The Damned | The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories | The Extra Day | The Garden Of Survival | The Glamour Of The Snow | The Human Chord | The Insanity Of Jones | The Man Who Found Out | The Man Whom The Trees Loved | The Wendigo | The Willows | Four Weird Tales | Karma | A Victim Of Higher Space | Accessory Before The Fact | An Egyptian Hornet | First Hate | Keeping His Promise | Max Hensig | Running Wolf | Secret Worship | The Attic | The Camp Of The Dog | The Empty House | The Goblin Collection | The House Of The Past | The Listener | The Nemesis Of Fire | The Occupant Of The Room | The Other Wing | The Singular Death Of Morton | The Terror Of The Twins | The Transfer | The Tryst | The Wave | Transition | Wayfarers]