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The Willows ’ is a novella by English author
Algernon Blackwood , originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood’s best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. ’The Willows’ is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.
Algernon Henry Blackwood (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, ’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’.
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