Algernon Blackwood Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
March 14, 1869 – December, 10, 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".

My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

Algernon Blackwood
- Theatre
- Alcohol
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.

Algernon Blackwood
- Time
- Strong

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

Algernon Blackwood
It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.

Algernon Blackwood