阿尔杰农·布莱克伍德

阿尔杰农·亨利·布莱克伍德 CBE(Algernon Henry Blackwood 1869年3月14日—1951年12月10日)是一名英国作家,写过许多恐怖小说。S·T·乔希认为他的水平在当时仅次于邓萨尼勋爵[1]

Algernon Blackwood
出生Algernon Henry Blackwood
(1869-03-14)1869年3月14日
英格兰肯特郡射手山
逝世1951年12月10日(1951岁—12—10)(82岁)
英格兰肯特郡贝肯汉姆
职业作家
体裁奇幻小说恐怖小说怪奇小说
代表作《半人马》、《孤岛柳林》、《温迪哥

生平

他出生于英格兰肯特郡射手山,在克雷福德长大[2]。曾就读威灵顿公学。他曾在加拿大当过奶农,还开过六个月旅馆,后来跑去美国纽约,当过记者(包括一份《纽约时报》的工作)、酒保、模特、私人秘书、商人、小提琴教师。[3]

快40岁时,他回到英格兰开始写作,作品曾在广播和电视上播出。出于对超自然事物的兴趣,他参加了鬼魂俱乐部。业余时间,他喜欢到户外散步。他一生未婚。[4]

参考文献

  1. ^ S. T. Joshi, The Weird Tale (University of Texas Press, 1990), p. 132.
  2. ^ Historic England. Crayford Manor House (1412621). National Heritage List for England英语National Heritage List for England. [2016-02-07]. 
  3. ^ Jack Sullivan, ed. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986), p. 38.
  4. ^ Jack Sullivan, ed. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986), p. 39

延伸阅读

  • Ashley, Mike. Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1987. ISBN 0-313-25158-4. 
  • Ashley, Mike. Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life. New York: Carroll & Graf. 2001. ISBN 0-7867-0928-6.  US edition of Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood.
  • Ashley, Mike. Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood. London: Constable & Robinson Ltd. 2001. ISBN 1-84119-417-4.  UK edition of Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life.
  • Blackwood, Algernon. Episodes Before Thirty. New York: Turtle Point Press. 2002. ISBN 1-885586-83-3.  Modern reissue of subject's memoir; originally published in 1923 (London: Cassell & Co.).
  • Burleson, Donald. "Algernon Blackwood's 'The Listener: A Hearing'". Studies in Weird Fiction 5 (Spring 1989), pp. 15–19.
  • Colombo, John Robert. "Blackwood's Books: A Bibliography Devoted to Algernon Blackwood" Toronto Hounslow Press 1981 ISBN 0-88882-055-0
  • Colombo, John Robert. (ed) Algernon Blackwood's Canadian Tales of Terror Lake Eugenia, Ontario Battered Silicon Dispatch Box 2004 ISBN 1-55246-605-1
  • Goddin, Jeffrey. "Subtle Perceptions: The Fantasy Novels of Algernon Blackwood" in Darrell Schweitzer (ed) Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction, Gillette NJ: Wildside Press, 1986, pp. 94–103.
  • Johnson, George M. "Algernon Blackwood". Dictionary of Literary Biography. Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists, First Series. Ed. George M. Johnson. Detroit: Gale, 1995.
  • Johnson, George M. "Algernon Blackwood". Dictionary of Literary Biography. British Short-Fiction Writers, 1880–1914. Ed. William F. Naufftus. Detroit: Gale, 1995.
  • Johnson, George M. "Algernon Blackwood". New Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Johnson, George M. "Algernon Blackwood’s Modernist Experiments in Psychical Detection". Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction. Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2007. pp. 29–51.
  • Johnson, George M. "The Other Side of Edwardian Fiction: Two Forgotten Fantasy Novels of 1911". Wormwood: Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent. UK, No. 16 (Spring 2011) 3–15.
  • Joshi, S. T. The Weird Tale. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 1990: 87–132, 236–38, 246–48, 266–69. ISBN 0-292-79057-0. 
  • Tuck, Donald H. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. 1974: 47–49. ISBN 0-911682-20-1. 

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