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...DOLL AND ONE OTHER [138 pp.]-Algernon Blackwood- Arkham House...
Author Algernon Blackwood, a bald, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Englishman now 77, is still up to his old tricks. The Doll is his first book in ten years. It consists of merely two longish stories (the other: The Trod), both typical old-style Blackwood: sinister, spooky, uncanny. To the literal-minded, such writing appears to be raving nonsense. So, in one sense, it surely is, but Blackwood is almost as artful at making it seem plausible as Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's stories are mysterious and terrifying, but for the most part they can be explained in perfectly...
Dried Milk Paid Better. Blackwood has been fascinated by what he calls "strange powers" since boyhood. The son of Sir Arthur Blackwood, K.C.B., and Sydney, Duchess of Manchester, he was sent to Canada about 1890 to make his living as a farmer. Apparently his prim Victorian parents had little hope for a son who, at 20, read the Bhagavad Gita and claimed to be a Buddhist. He settled near Toronto and bought into a dairy partnership, but the enterprise soon failed. For the next nine or ten years he drifted around Canada and the U.S., losing what little money...
Eventually he went home to England and into the dried-milk business. His first book, The Empty House (1906), was written, he says, simply for his own amusement. A friend read the stories and found a publisher who would bring them out. Blackwood, astonished, retired from trade and gave all his time to writing...
...Publisher. The stories in The Doll were written in Devonshire during the war, stuck in the hamper and almost forgotten. Blackwood dug them out when