Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here Spine-tingling supernatural tales from "the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere" (H.P. Lovecraft) By turns bizarre unsettling spooky and sublime Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories 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 title story the inspiration for Val Lewton's classic film Cat People; "The Willows " which Lovecraft singled out as "the single finest weird tale in literature"; "The Wendigo"; "The Insanity of Jones"; and "Sand." "Of the equality of Mr. Blackwood's genius there can be no dispute; for no one has ever approached the skill seriousness and minute fidelity with which he records the overtones of strangeness in ordinary things and experiences." --H.P. Lovecraft
