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Algernon Blackwood was an English writer known for his supernatural and horror fiction. His works often explore the boundaries between human consciousness and the supernatural, enjoying great popularity among readers.

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“Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.”

Way Soul Infinite Ritual Passages

Book:Four Weird Tales

Source: Four Weird Tales

“When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.”

Way Felt Imagination Common Darkness Objects Horror Creatures Aspect Appearance Unusual Suggestions Bizarre Hostile Living Creatures Ordinariness

Book:Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener

Source: Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener

“Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.”

Source: Four Weird Tales

“And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.”

Ifs Way Heart Long Important Emotion Brain Birth Dust Persist Restraint Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Algernon Blackwood