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Episode 190 – Here Be Shrubs: On Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows'

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In this episode, JF and Phil paddle into the marshlands of Algernon Blackwood’s 1907 masterpiece The Willows, a tale Lovecraft once called the finest weird story of all time. They explore how a narrative in which almost nothing happens can conjure a cosmic dread more potent than a legion of monsters, and how Blackwood’s genius lies in revealing the spiritual horror latent in landscape itself. Topics include zones, the limits of human reason, and the terror of brushing up against an otherworld that lies just beyond the riverbank—near at hand, yet somehow separated from us by an unbridgeable gulf.

Photo by Derek Dye, via Wikimedia Commons.

REFERENCES

Algernon Blackwood, “The Willows”

Weird Studies, Episode 55 on “The Wendigo”

SCTV

Algernon Blackwood, “The Psychology of Places” in The Lure of the Unknown

Weird Studies, Episodes 14 and 15 on Stalker

Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols

Sue Clifford and Angela King, England in Particular

Michael Dames, Pagans Progress

J. G. Ballard, English fiction author

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Content provided by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel and SpectreVision Radio. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel and SpectreVision Radio or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://staging.podcastplayer.com/legal.

In this episode, JF and Phil paddle into the marshlands of Algernon Blackwood’s 1907 masterpiece The Willows, a tale Lovecraft once called the finest weird story of all time. They explore how a narrative in which almost nothing happens can conjure a cosmic dread more potent than a legion of monsters, and how Blackwood’s genius lies in revealing the spiritual horror latent in landscape itself. Topics include zones, the limits of human reason, and the terror of brushing up against an otherworld that lies just beyond the riverbank—near at hand, yet somehow separated from us by an unbridgeable gulf.

Photo by Derek Dye, via Wikimedia Commons.

REFERENCES

Algernon Blackwood, “The Willows”

Weird Studies, Episode 55 on “The Wendigo”

SCTV

Algernon Blackwood, “The Psychology of Places” in The Lure of the Unknown

Weird Studies, Episodes 14 and 15 on Stalker

Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols

Sue Clifford and Angela King, England in Particular

Michael Dames, Pagans Progress

J. G. Ballard, English fiction author

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  continue reading

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