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TALES OF THE UNCANNY AND SUPERNATURAL (426 pp.)-Algernon Blackwood-British Book Centre...
When a corpse comes calling, it is perhaps wisest to do just as Mr. Jenkyn did in one of these Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood-he made the old boy right at home. U.S. readers might profitably do as much for the author of the stories. Algernon Blackwood doesn't write much these days, but 30 years ago he was one of fiction's most famous commuters to the Great Beyond...
...cases, started a craving few addicts restrain, started a saga of amateur aces, whimsical, taciturn, dashing, urbane . . ." Holmes Addict Christopher Morley (see BOOKS), who helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw. Said Editor Hall: "We want to produce the Rolls-Royce of detective magazines...
...addition to the study of such imaginative authors as Lovecraft, Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, the group plans more active doings for the future. Members contemplate field trips to "haunted houses" in and around Salem and Marblehead, and also have some catacombs lined up for investigation in Connecticut...
...BLACKWOOD Gettysburg...