Details

Title

The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories

Author

Blackwood, Algernon
Wilson, Wilfred

Physical Description

320 p. ; 19.2 x 13.2 cm

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

E.P. Dutton & Company

Edition

1st

Date of Publication

1921 Show more1921-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Note

Algernon Blackwood was a prolific journalist and writer who became well-known for reading many of his horror stories live on BBC radio and television. Blackwood wrote hundreds of short stories and more than a dozen novels in his lifetime, and he was fascinated by the occult, hypnotism, hauntings, the "weird" and the unexplained. His best known stories, "The Willows" and "The Wendigo" are still considered classics of horror short fiction. The latter story is set in a remote area of northern Ontario, and, as the titles suggests, draws on Indigenous folklore along with supernatural themes. H.P. Lovecraft listed Blackwood among one of the "Modern Masters" of horror in his 1927 essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature." Lovecraft noted Blackwood's talent for highlighting "the strangeness of ordinary things," and he said that "amidst [Blackwood's] voluminous and uneven work may be found some of the finest spectral literature of this or any age." His co-author, Wilfred Wilson, was a much lesser-known author of the same genres; this collection of short stories, most previously published in magazines, his most enduring legacy. Wolves of God features 15 stories with a variety of themes: supernatural creatures, giant insects, spirits, disembodied voices, and ghosts. This copy of the volume was owned by L.M. Montgomery while she was living at the Leaskdale Manse in Ontario based on her inscription that reads: "L.M. Montgomery Macdonald June 1922."

Genre

short story