History Creator / AlgernonBlackwood

* CoolTrain: The Starlight Express in ''A Prisoner in Fairyland''.[[note]]No relation to Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's ''The Starlight Express'' play. There ''is'' a play based on ''A Prisoner in Fairyland'', also called ''The Starlight Express'', written by Violet Pearn, with music by Music/EdwardElgar, who loved the story because it was so much like his own childhood fantasy world. Unfortunately the production and art direction were way off, and Pearn's script turned the story into a TastesLikeDiabetes pageant that Blackwood, writing to Elgar, called "Arts & Crafts pretentious rubbish stitched onto your music by a silly crank" who'd never bothered to actually read the book. The music, though, is exquisite, and is all that survives; the sets and costumes were destroyed along with the orchestra score in a UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo air raid. Elgar's manuscript score has been recorded several times and can be heard in its entirety on Website/YouTube, and often on classical music stations.[[/note]]

* BodyHorror:
** Happens to the man dragged off by the wendigo in "The Wendigo".
** "The Paper Man"

* CoolTrain: The Starlight Express in ''A Prisoner in Fairyland''.[[note]]No relation to Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's ''The Starlight Express'' play. There ''is'' a play based on ''A Prisoner in Fairyland'', also called ''The Starlight Express'', written by Violet Pearn, with music by Music/EdwardElgar, who loved the story because it was so much like his own childhood fantasy world. Unfortunately the production and art direction were way off, and Pearn's script turned the story into a TastesLikeDiabetes pageant that Blackwood, writing to Elgar, called "Arts & Crafts pretentious rubbish stitched onto your music by a silly crank" who'd never bothered to actually read the book. The music, though, is exquisite, and is all that survives; the sets and costumes were destroyed along with the orchestra score in a UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo air raid. Elgar's manuscript score has been recorded several times and can be heard in its entirety on YouTube, and often on classical music stations.[[/note]]
* {{Creepy Doll}}: "The Doll"

* HeAlsoDid: In addition to his supernatural writing Blackwood was also a radio broadcaster and wrote a great deal of children's literature, {{literary fiction}} and propaganda.

** "The Camp of the Dog"
* {{Paranormal Investigation}}

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Many of Blackwood's stories take place in New York (where he lived for a time) or feature various fictional accounts of cases investigated by him when he was part of the Psychical Research Society or things he learned from The Hermetical Order of the Golden Dawn when he was part of them.

Algernon Henry Blackwood CBE (March 14, 1869 -- December 10, 1951) was a very prolific (for his time) writer of {{Horror}} and {{Fantasy}} short stories and novels as well as an early writer of the {{cosmic horror story}} as well as a journalist and broadcasting narrator. His works combine the beauty of nature (often going into {{scenery porn}}) with various [[IndexOfGothicHorrorTropes gothic horror tropes]] as well as creatures and folklore from various religions such as the {{wendigo}}. His most famous work is probably "The Willows" which many consider his best. He also was an early influence on the {{occult detective}} genre of fiction with his creation "Dr. John Silence". His work would occasionally play with a trope and feature {{black comedy}}. In contrast to many other authors like him Blackwood had a genuine interest in the supernatural and actually worked as a paranormal investigator with a group of friends before he moved into writing.

* CoolTrain: The Starlight Express in ''A Prisoner in Fairyland''.

* HauntedHouse: "The Empty House" has a fairly typical example. ''Jimbo'' has a kind of subjective example, with the kid initially thinking the ghosts are friendly, until his governess tries to ScareEmStraight and ends up traumatizing him.

* DontGoInTheWoods: A recurring theme.

* HauntedHouse: "The Empty House" has a fairly typical example.

Algernon Henry Blackwood CBE (March 14, 1869 -- December 10, 1951) was a very prolific (for his time) writer of {{Horror}} and {{Fantasy}} short stories and novels as well as an early writer of the {{cosmic horror story}} as well as a journalist and broadcasting narrator. His works combine the beauty of nature (often going into {{scenery porn}}) with various [[IndexOfGothicHorrorTropes gothic horror tropes]] as well as creatures and folklore from various religions such as the {{wendigo}}. His most famous work is probably "The Willows" which many consider his best. He also was an early influence on the {{occult detective}} genre of fiction with his creation "Dr. John Silence" His work would occasionally play with a trope and feature {{black comedy}}. In contrast to many other authors like him Blackwood had a genuine interest in the supernatural and actually worked as a paranormal investigator with a group of friends before he moved into writing.

Algernon Blackwood CBE (March 14, 1869 -- December 10, 1951) was a very prolific (for his time) writer of {{Horror}} and {{Fantasy}} short stories and novels as well as an early writer of the {{cosmic horror story}} as well as a journalist and broadcasting narrator. His works combine the beauty of nature (often going into {{scenery porn}}) with various [[IndexOfGothicHorrorTropes gothic horror tropes]] as well as creatures and folklore from various religions such as the {{wendigo}}. His most famous work is probably "The Willows" which many consider his best. He also was an early influence on the {{occult detective}} genre of fiction with his creation "Dr. John Silence" His work would occasionally play with a trope and feature {{black comedy}}. In contrast to many other authors like him Blackwood had a genuine interest in the supernatural and actually worked as a paranormal investigator with a group of friends before he moved into writing.

Algernon Blackwood (March 14, 1869-December 10, 1951) was a very prolific (for his time) writer of {{Horror}} and {{Fantasy}} short stories and novels as well as an early writer of the {{cosmic horror story}} as well as a journalist and broadcasting narrator. His works combine the beauty of nature (often going into {{scenery porn}}) with various [[IndexOfGothicHorrorTropes gothic horror tropes]] as well as creatures and folklore from various religions such as the {{wendigo}}. His most famous work is probably "The Willows" which many consider his best. He also was an early influence on the {{occult detective}} genre of fiction with his creation "Dr. John Silence" His work would occasionally play with a trope and feature {{black comedy}}. In contrast to many other authors like him Blackwood had a genuine interest in the supernatural and actually worked as a paranormal investigator with a group of friends before he moved into writing.

* HeAlsoDid: In addition to his supernatural writing Blackwood was also a radio broadcaster and wrote a great deal of children's literature, {{literary fiction}} and propaganda.

Algernon Blackwood (March 14, 1869-December 10, 1951) was a very prolific (for his time) writer of {{Horror}} and {{Fantasy}} short stories and novels as well as an early writer of the {{cosmic horror story}} as well as a journalist and broadcasting narrator. His works combine the beauty of nature (often going into {{scenery porn}}) with various {{gothic horror tropes}} as well as creatures and folklore from various religions such as the {{wendigo}}. His most famous work is probably "The Willows" which many consider his best. He also was an early influence on the {{occult detective}} genre of fiction with his creation "Dr. John Silence" His work would occasionally play with a trope and feature {{black comedy}}. In contrast to many other authors like him Blackwood had a genuine interest in the supernatural and actually worked as a paranormal investigator with a group of friends before he moved into writing.

* BrainBleach: The protagonist of "The Man Who Found Out" learned something so repellent from an ancient tablet that he had a hypnotist eliminate the abhorrent knowledge via LaserGuidedAmnesia.

* {{Haunted House}}: "The Empty House" has a fairly typical example.
* {{He Also Did}}: In addition to his supernatural writing Blackwood was also a radio broadcaster and wrote a great deal of children's literature, {{literary fiction}} and propaganda.

* EldritchLocation: The setting of "The Willows".

** The setting of "The Willows".

* {{The Lost Woods}}

* WhenTreesAttack: "The Willows" and "The Man Whom the Trees Loved".

* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** "A Psychical Invasion"
** "The Empty House"
** "Running Wolf"

* {{Paranormal Investigation}}
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: In "The Man Who Found Out", an explorer discovers the long-lost Tablets of the Gods, reputed to explain the true purpose of human existence. Reading their translation causes him to lose the will to live, and the friend who inherits the Tablets destroys the text and has his own memory of reading it erased via hypnosis.

* {{Wendigo}}: "The Wendigo" is an influential early example of modern treatments of the concept.

* {{Our Vampires are Different}}: "The Singular Death of Morton".

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: "A Psychical Invasion"

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Many of Blackwood's stories take place in New York (where he lived for a time) or feature various fictional accounts of case investigated by him when he was part of the Psychical Research Society or things he learned from The Hermetical Order of the Golden Dawn when he was part of them.

Algernon Blackwood ( March 14, 1869-December 10, 1951) was a very prolific (for his time) writer of {{Horror}} and {{Fantasy}} short stories and novels as well as an early writer of the {{cosmic horror story}} as well as a journalist and broadcasting narrator. His works combine the beauty of nature (often going into {{scenery porn}}) with various {{gothic horror tropes}} as well as creatures and folklore from various religions such as the {{wendigo}}. His most famous work is probably "The Willows" which many consider his best. He also was an early influence on the {{occult detective}} genre of fiction with his creation "Dr. John Silence" His work would occasionally play with a trope and feature {{black comedy}}. In contrast to many other authors like him Blackwood had a genuine interest in the supernatural and actually worked as a paranormal investigator with a group of friends before he moved into writing.

* {{Body Horror}}: Happens to the man dragged off by the wendigo.

* {{Genius Loci}}: The setting of "The Willows"
** The forest around the protagonists house in "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" is implied to be alive.
* {{Our Ghosts are Different}} "A Psychical Invasion"

* {{He Also Did}}: In addition to his supernatural writing Blackwood was also a radio broadcaster and wrote a great deal of children's literature, {{literary fiction}} and propaganda

* {{Real Life Writes The Plot}}: Many of Blackwood's stories take place in New York (where he lived for a time) or feature various fictional accounts of case investigated by him when he was part of the Psychical Research Society or things he learned from The Hermetical Order of the Golden Dawn when he was part of them.

* {{Our Werewolves are Different}}: "The Strange Adventure of a Private Secretary in New York" has an example who behaves similar to a werewolf but never actually transforms.
** The Camp of the Dog"

Algernon Blackwood ( March 14, 1869-December 10, 1951) was a very prolific (for his time) writer of {{Horror}} and {{Fantasy}} short stories and novels as well as an early writer of the {{cosmic horror story}} as well as a journalist and broadcasting narrator. His works combine the beauty of nature (often going into {{scenery porn}}) with various {{gothic horror tropes}} as well as creatures and folklore from various religions such as the {{wendigo}}. His most famous work is probably "The Willows" which many consider his best. He also was an early influence on the {{occult detective}} genre of fiction with his creation "Dr. John Silence" His work would occasionally play with a trope and feature {{black comedy}}.

* {{Body Horror}}: Happens to the man dragged off by the wendigo

{{The Lost Woods}}

* {{Real Life Writes The Plot}}: Many of Blackwood's stories take place in New York or feature various fictional accounts of case investigated by him when he was part of the Psychical Research Society or things he learned from The Hermetical Order of the Golden Dawn when he was part of them.

* {{He Also Did}}: In addition to his supernatural writing Blackwood was also a radio broadcaster and wrote a great deal a children's literature, {{literary fiction}} and propaganda

Algernon Blackwood was a very prolific (for his time) writer of {{Horror}} and {{Fantasy}} short stories and novels as well as an early writer of the {{cosmic horror story}}. His works combine the beauty of nature (often going into {{scenery porn}}) with various {{gothic horror tropes}} as well as creatures and folklore from various religions such as the {{wendigo}}. His most famous work is probably "The Willows" which many consider his best. He also was an early influence on the {{occult detective}} genre of fiction with his creation "Dr. John Silence" His work would occasionally play with a trope and feature {{black comedy}}.

Algernon Blackwood was a very prolific (for his time) writer of {{Horror}} and {{Fantasy}} short stories and novels as well as an early writer of the {{cosmic horror story}}. His works combine the beauty of nature (often going into {{scenery porn}}) with various {{gothic horror tropes}} as well as creatures and folklore from various religions such as the {{wendigo}}. His most famous work is probably "The Willows" which many consider his best. His work would occasionally play with a trope and feature {{black comedy}}.

A description of tropes appearing in Algernon's works:

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