The Willows and Others: Collected Short Fiction of Algernon Blackwood, Volume 1 - Paperbackby Algernon Blackwood (Author), S. T. Joshi (Editor) Algernon Blackwood (1869 1951) was England's greatest writer of weird fiction in the early twentieth century. He escaped a repressive religious education by absorbing Hindu and Buddhist texts. Venturing to Canada to look for work, he established a deep connection with the natural world on frequent camping trips. But his subsequent years in New York (1892 99) thrust him in a filthy, overcrowded