The Face of the Earth and Other Imaginings

The Face of the Earth & Other Imaginings

Those who are acquainted with Blackwood's work will know that he did not write simple ghost stories. From his childhood Blackwood had a love for the natural world and for much of his life, whenever he could, he would escape the city and the town and take himself into the remotest corners of the world, there to commune not simply with Nature, but with the very Spirit of the Earth.

Blackwood firmly believed that the human race had become too civilized, i...