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。代表作有《空屋子与鬼故事》、《人首马身怪》、《柳树》、《琼斯的疯狂》。

生平

他出生于英格兰肯特郡射手山，在克雷福德长大。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。

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。

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Algernon Henry Blackwood (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".

Life and work

Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (now part of southeast London, then part of northwest Kent). Between 1871 and 1880, he lived at Crayford Manor House, Crayford and he was educated at Wellington College. His father, Sir Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, was a Post Office administrator; his mother, Harriet Dobbs, was the widow of the 6th Duke of Manchester. According to Peter Penzoldt, his father, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas". After Algernon read the work of a Hindu sage left behind at his parents' house, he developed an interest in Buddhism and other eastern philosophies.

Blackwood had a varied career, working as a dairy farmer in Canada, where he also operated a hotel for six months, bartender, model, reporter for The New York Times, private secretary, businessman, and violin teacher. During his time in Canada, he also became one of the founding members of the Toronto Theosophical Society in February 1891. Throughout his adult life, he was an occasional essayist for periodicals. In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He was successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and later telling them on radio and television. He also wrote 14 novels, several children's books and a number of plays, most of which were produced, but not published. He was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors, as many of his stories reflect. To satisfy his interest in the supernatural, he joined The Ghost Club. He never married; according to his friends he was a loner, but also cheerful company.

Jack Sullivan stated that "Blackwood's life parallels his work more neatly than perhaps that of any other ghost story writer. Like his lonely but fundamentally optimistic protagonists, he was a combination of mystic and outdoorsman; when he wasn't steeping himself in occultism, including Rosicrucianism, or Buddhism he was likely to be skiing or mountain climbing." Blackwood was a member of one of the factions of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as was his contemporary Arthur Machen. Cabalistic themes influence his novel The Human Chord.

His two best-known stories are probably "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". He would often write stories for newspapers at short notice, so that he and his biographers are not sure exactly how many short stories he wrote. Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Good examples are the novels The Centaur, which reaches a climax with a traveller's sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon and its sequel The Bright Messenger, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution of human consciousness. In correspondence with Peter Penzoldt, Blackwood wrote,