Algernon Blackwood

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

— Algernon Blackwood

“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a…

— Algernon Blackwood

“Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no…

— Algernon Blackwood

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

— Algernon Blackwood

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

— Algernon Blackwood

“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky…

— Algernon Blackwood

“The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of…

— Algernon Blackwood

Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the…

— Algernon Blackwood

“The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the…

— Algernon Blackwood

“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")”

— Algernon Blackwood

“You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in…

— Algernon Blackwood

“In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an…

— Algernon Blackwood

“She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”

— Algernon Blackwood

“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about…

— Algernon Blackwood

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

— Algernon Blackwood

“Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was…

— Algernon Blackwood

To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the…

— Algernon Blackwood

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little…

— Algernon Blackwood

“The eeriness of this lonely island, set among a million willows, swept by a hurricane, and surrounded by hurrying deep waters, touched…

— Algernon Blackwood

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things…

— Algernon Blackwood

“It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo")”

— Algernon Blackwood

“For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror - and his scattered powers had not…

— Algernon Blackwood

“What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.”

— Algernon Blackwood

“For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.”

— Algernon Blackwood

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures…

— Algernon Blackwood