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." One of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Blackwood was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. Included in this volume of tales of terror are the classic Blackwood stories, "The Lost Valley," "The Wendigo," "Old Clothes," "Perspective," "The Terror of the Twins," "The Man from the 'Gods, '" "The Man Who Played upon the Leaf," "The Price of Wiggins's Orgy," "Carlton's Drive," and "The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute."

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