Reviews

"Of the quality of Mr. Blackwood's genius there can be no dispute.... He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere; and can evoke what amounts almost to a story from a simple fragment of humourless psychological description." -H.P. Lovecraft "This is perhaps a key differentiation that can be made between [Blackwood's] writing and that of his actual and approximate contemporaries: Lovecraft's sanity-shattering ontological paradigm shifts and Machen's drawing-back of the veil on the adumbral numinous are not entirely absent, but the focus is on the annihilation of the ego; the loss of personality; engulfment." -Weird Fiction Review