阿尔杰农·布莱克伍德

阿爾傑農·亨利·布萊克伍德 CBE（Algernon Henry Blackwood ）是一名英國作家，寫過許多恐怖小說。S·T·喬希認為他的水平在當時僅次於鄧薩尼勛爵。

生平
他出生於英格蘭肯特郡射手山，在克雷福德長大。曾就讀威靈頓公學。他曾在加拿大當過奶农，還開過六個月旅館，後來跑去美國紐約，當過記者（包括一份《紐約時報》的工作）、酒保、模特、私人秘書、商人、小提琴教師。

快40歲時，他回到英格蘭開始寫作，作品曾在廣播和電視上播出。出於對超自然事物的興趣，他參加了鬼魂俱樂部。業餘時間，他喜歡到戶外散步。他一生未婚。

參考文獻

延伸阅读 

 US edition of Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood.
 UK edition of Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life.
 Modern reissue of subject's memoir; originally published in 1923 (London: Cassell & Co.).
Burleson, Donald. "Algernon Blackwood's 'The Listener: A Hearing'". Studies in Weird Fiction 5 (Spring 1989), pp. 15–19.
Colombo, John Robert. "Blackwood's Books: A Bibliography Devoted to Algernon Blackwood" Toronto  Hounslow Press 1981 
Colombo, John Robert. (ed) Algernon Blackwood's Canadian Tales of Terror Lake Eugenia, Ontario Battered Silicon Dispatch Box 2004 
Goddin, Jeffrey. "Subtle Perceptions: The Fantasy Novels of Algernon Blackwood" in Darrell Schweitzer (ed) Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction, Gillette NJ: Wildside Press, 1986, pp. 94–103.
Johnson, George M. "Algernon Blackwood". Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists, First Series. Ed. George M. Johnson. Detroit: Gale, 1995.
Johnson, George M. "Algernon Blackwood". Dictionary of Literary Biography. British Short-Fiction Writers, 1880–1914. Ed. William F. Naufftus. Detroit: Gale, 1995.
Johnson, George M. "Algernon Blackwood". New Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Johnson, George M. "Algernon Blackwood’s Modernist Experiments in Psychical Detection". Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction.  Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2007. pp. 29–51.
Johnson, George M. "The Other Side of Edwardian Fiction: Two Forgotten Fantasy Novels of 1911". Wormwood: Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent. UK, No. 16 (Spring 2011) 3–15.

外部連接

Fantastic Fiction Algernon Blackwood page 
Collection of Blackwood Stories 
Algernon Blackwood Quotes 

克雷福德人
英國恐怖小說家
威靈頓公學校友