{"product_id":"ancient-sorceries-and-other-weird-stories-9780142180150","title":"Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories","description":"By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, \u003ci\u003eAncient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories\u003c\/i\u003e showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including \"The Willows,\" which Lovecraft singled out as \"the single finest weird tale in literature\"; \"The Wendigo\"; \"The Insanity of Jones\"; and \"Sand.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eS. T. Joshi\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft's \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1999), and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood's \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAncient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Weird Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1990), \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1995), \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eH. P. Lovecraft: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1996), and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Modern Weird Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Supernatural Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610120720658,"sku":"9780142180150","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce2edeef-d4b6-4b09-8f17-8468126b48c1.jpg?v=1745355706","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ancient-sorceries-and-other-weird-stories-9780142180150","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}