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...bill are Algernon Black-wood's A Physical Invasion and Theophile Gautier's Clarimonde. In the Blackwood story, a professional humorist takes a drug which he hopes will increase his sense of humor. It does, but it also invites a visit by a female "Intruder" who turns all his best jokes into "diabolical ideas of evil and tragedy...
...Congress to get his retirement set aside, and Rosenberg back on active duty, but back he went (TIME, Sept. 4, 1950). Last week Lieut. Commander Rosenberg, 32, saw his Annapolis dream come true: he was ordered to his first sea command, the destroyer escort J. Douglas Blackwood...
Died. Algernon Blackwood, 82, leading British practitioner of horror fiction (Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural -TIME, Feb. 12; The Doll and One Other) in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe; after long illness; in London...
When it comes to spook literature, the English are still the best in the business, and this collection of short stories by Englishman John Collier is added proof of it. Unlike his fellow Englishman and spook specialist, Algernon Blackwood (TIME, Feb. 12), Collier does not deal in pure supernatural terror. His recipe calls for a good measure of spoof with the spooks, a grain or two of satiric strychnine and a dash of essence of Charles Addams...
Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural, by Algernon Blackwood. Selected stories by one of fiction's most famous commuters to the Great Beyond (TIME...