"Algernon Blackwood's 1907 story, called by H. P. Lovecraft as the ""finest supernatural tale in English literature"" is titled after what type of trees? (hint: cricket)"
"and not indirectly with mere expressions of the soul."" These forces are often contrasted with the natural beauty of the area, itself a vigorous dynamic. Overall, the story suggests that the landscape is actually an intersection, a point of contact with a ""fourth dimension"" — ""on the frontier of another world, an alien world, a world tenanted by willows only and the souls of willows."" The Willows (story) ""The Willows"" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection ""The Listener and Other Stories"". It is one of Blackwood's best known works and"
"Algernon Blackwood Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that ""his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's"" and that his short story collection ""Incredible Adventures"" (1914) ""may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century"". Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (now part of south-east London, then part of north-west Kent)."
"at his feet. It rattled the millstone again, the stepmother said that it thundered, the father went out, and the bird dropped the watch and chain at his feet. It rattled the millstone a third time, and the stepmother went out, and the bird dropped the millstone on her head. The Rose-Tree The Rose-Tree is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in ""English Fairy Tales"". Also included within ""A Book Of British Fairytales"" by Alan Garner. It is Aarne–Thompson type 720, my mother slew me; my father ate me. Another of this type is ""The Juniper Tree"", where"
"of the wood of a dule tree in the fictional town of Barchester, the tree having been known as 'the Hanging Oak'. A Scottish ballad, ""The Wronged Mason,"" tells of one Lambert Lamkin who is hanged on the dule-tree of Balwearie Castle in Fife. ""The Dule Tree"" was published in 2004 by Finavon Print in association with the Elphinstone Institute, to mark the end of Sheena Blackhall's residency as Creative Writer in Scots at the University of Aberdeen. ""The Black Douglas"" (1899) by S. R. Crockett (1859–1914) has the line ""and let that wight remember that the Douglas does not"
"Incredible Adventures Incredible Adventures is a collection by Algernon Blackwood, comprising four novellas and a story. It was originally published by Macmillan in 1914 and reprinted in 2004 by Hippocampus Press. H. P. Lovecraft wrote that: In the volume titled ""Incredible Adventures"" occur some of the finest tales which the author has yet produced, leading the fancy to wild rites on nocturnal hills, to secret and terrible aspects lurking behind stolid scenes, and to unimaginable vaults of mystery below the sands and pyramids of Egypt; all with a serious finesse and delicacy that convince where a cruder or lighter treatment"
"Ghost Story for Christmas"" strand. It was first broadcast on 23 December 1975 at 11.35. The adaptation stars Edward Petherbridge as Sir Richard and it was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. The Ash-tree ""The Ash-tree"" is a ghost story by British writer M.R. James, included in his 1904 collection ""Ghost Stories of an Antiquary"". The tale documents the tale of Sir Richard Fell, who has just inherited Castringham, a country seat with an unfortunate history. The house has been cursed since the day his ancestor, Sir Matthew Fell, condemned a woman to death for witchcraft. It is soon discovered that"
"grandson: Regarding the forests, Francis Gentry comments that ""in the Norse tradition 'crossing the Black Forest' came to signify penetrating the barriers between one world and another, especially the world of the gods and the world of fire, where Surt lives [...]."" It was first anglicized as ""Mirkwood"" by William Morris in ""A Tale of the House of the Wolfings"" from 1888, and later by J. R. R. Tolkien in his fiction. Myrkviðr In Germanic mythology, Myrkviðr (Old Norse ""dark wood"" or ""black forest"") is the name of several European forests. The direct derivatives of the name occur as a"
"The Rose-Tree The Rose-Tree is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in ""English Fairy Tales"". Also included within ""A Book Of British Fairytales"" by Alan Garner. It is Aarne–Thompson type 720, my mother slew me; my father ate me. Another of this type is ""The Juniper Tree"", where the dead child is a boy; ""The Rose Tree"" is an unusual variant of this tale in that the main character is a girl. A long time ago there was a man who had two children; a daughter by his first wife and a son by his second. His daughter"
"The landscapes depicted in E. H. Shepard's illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh books were directly inspired by the distinctive landscape of Ashdown Forest, with its high, open heathlands of heather, gorse, bracken and silver birch punctuated by hilltop clumps of pine trees. Many of Shepard's illustrations can be matched to actual views, allowing for a degree of artistic licence. Shepard's sketches of pine trees and other forest scenes are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The game of Poohsticks was originally played by Christopher Milne on a footbridge across a tributary of the River Medway in Posingford Wood,"
"Goat, probably a reference to Lovecraft's invented deity Shub-Niggurath. Theunis recurs in Rimel's story ""The Jewels of Charlotte"" (""Unusual Stories"", May-June 1935), which may also have been revised by Lovecraft. The Tree on the Hill ""The Tree on the Hill"" is a short story written by horror author H. P. Lovecraft and his correspondent Duane W. Rimel. It was written in 1934 and published in 1940 in ""Polaris"". The story is written in first person. It depicts the main character exploring outside a city called Hampden and finding a special tree atop an unusual hill. From the hill, the man"
"""The Man-Eating Tree"" with its gigantic flytraps, Frank Aubrey's 1897 ""The Devil Tree of El Dorado"", and Fred White's 1899 ""Purple Terror"". Algernon Blackwood's 1907 story ""The Willows"" powerfully tells of malevolent trees that manipulate people's minds. A major theme of science fiction and of speculative biology is to convey a message of optimism or pessimism according to the author's worldview. Whereas optimistic visions of technological progress are common enough in hard science fiction, pessimistic views of the future of humanity are far more usual in fiction based on biology. A rare optimistic note is struck by the evolutionary biologist"
"Book are actual occult terms, but most were invented by Machen for the story. Of these, some would be picked up by later authors of weird fiction—notably ""Aklo"", which was used by Lovecraft in connection with the ""Sabaoth"" invocation in ""The Dunwich Horror"". The story has frequently been reprinted, and scholars and devotees of supernatural fiction often cite it as a classic of the genre. E. F. Bleiler wrote that the narrative in the Green Book ""is probably the finest single supernatural story of the century, perhaps in the literature"", and Michael Dirda has stated: ""If I were to list"
"The Tree (short story) ""The Tree"" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in ""The Tryout"". Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences. Lovecraft wrote ""The Tree"" early in his career. He was dismissive of the story in a 1936 letter. It was one that, he said, ""if typed on good stock make excellent shelf-paper, but little else."" The assessment of Lovecraft authority S. T. Joshi was that although the story ""may be a trifle"
"fell down dead. The prince, Gold-Tree, and the second wife lived happily thereafter. Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree is a Scottish fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his ""Celtic Fairy Tales"". It is Aarne-Thompson type 709, Snow White. Others of this type include ""Bella Venezia"", ""Nourie Hadig"", ""La petite Toute-Belle"" and ""Myrsina"". A king had a wife, Silver-Tree, and a daughter, Gold-Tree. One day they walked by a pond, and Silver-Tree asked a trout if she was the most beautiful queen in the world, whereupon the trout said that Gold-Tree was more beautiful. Silver-Tree took to her bed"
"Chained Oak The Chained Oak is an oak tree, tied in chains, near to the village of Alton, Staffordshire, England. The tree, referred to as ""The Old Oak"", is the subject of a local legend involving the Earl of Shrewsbury and an old beggar woman. The legend goes that on an autumn night Earl of Shrewsbury was returning to his home at Alton Towers when an old woman suddenly appeared in the road. The coach stopped to find why she was there, and then the old woman begged for a coin. The Earl cruelly dismissed her, so the old woman"
"The Ash-tree ""The Ash-tree"" is a ghost story by British writer M.R. James, included in his 1904 collection ""Ghost Stories of an Antiquary"". The tale documents the tale of Sir Richard Fell, who has just inherited Castringham, a country seat with an unfortunate history. The house has been cursed since the day his ancestor, Sir Matthew Fell, condemned a woman to death for witchcraft. It is soon discovered that the ancient ash tree outside his bedroom window is the root of the problem. It was adapted in 1975 by David Rudkin as ""The Ash Tree"" and part the BBC's ""A"
"for wheelchairs, leads to and around the tree. An interpretative panel explains the tree's history. A fence encircles the tree to protect its roots from soil compaction due to foot traffic. The tree has been popular with visitors for a long time and at the height of its fame, in Victorian times, people would come from far and wide to see it. It is even reputed to have been visited by Henry VIII during a hunting expedition in the forest. In February 2006, the Forestry Commission harvested twigs from the tree to produce new ‘Knightwood’ oaks with identical genes. Some"
"folkloric forest is an opportunity for the heroes of legend. Among the oldest of all recorded tales, the Sumerian ""Epic of Gilgamesh"" recounts how the heroes Gilgamesh and Enkidu traveled to the Cedar Forest to fight the monsters there and be the first to cut down its trees. In Norse myth and legend, Myrkviðr (or Mirkwood) was dark and dangerous forest that separated various lands; heroes and even gods had to traverse it with difficulty. Romans referred to the Hercynian Forest, in Germania, as an enchanted place; though most references in their works are to geography, Julius Caesar mentioned unicorns"
"the soul of a dead man reach out of its grave of two centuries and fasten itself on the flesh of the living."" The theme of a descendant who closely resembles a distant ancestor may come from Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The House of the Seven Gables"", which Lovecraft called ""New England's greatest contribution to weird literature"" in ""Supernatural Horror in Literature"". Another proposed literary source is M. R. James' short story ""Count Magnus"", also praised in ""Supernatural Horror in Literature"", which suggests the resurrection of a sinister 17th century figure. The germ of inspiration came from Lovecraft reading Cotton Mather and"
"would merely amuse. Some of these accounts are hardly stories at all, but rather studies in elusive impressions and half-remembered snatches of dream. Plot is everywhere negligible, and atmosphere reigns untrammelled. More recently, S. T. Joshi has acclaimed ""Incredible Adventures"" as possibly ""the premier weird collection of this or any other century"". The book contains the following stories, all novella-length except for ""Wayfarers"": Incredible Adventures Incredible Adventures is a collection by Algernon Blackwood, comprising four novellas and a story. It was originally published by Macmillan in 1914 and reprinted in 2004 by Hippocampus Press. H. P. Lovecraft wrote that: In"
"Poems"", a collection of poems by the author, playwright and poet Albert Francis Cross (1863–1940). It is also the setting for the speculative fiction novel ""Some Kind of Fairy Tale"" by Graham Joyce (2012), in which it is depicted as a possible portal to the realm of fairies. Charnwood Forest covers approx of Leicestershire, split over three local government districts: Charnwood Borough, North West Leicestershire District and Hinckley and Bosworth District. It includes a national nature reserve (NNR), 19 SSSIs (Some subdivided in the list of sites below), 4 GCR sites of international geological importance plus a further 6 GCR"
"the North Downs. The area is one of the highest in the London area, and for centuries was occupied by the Great North Wood, an extensive area of natural oak forest which formed a wilderness close to the southern edge of the ever-expanding city of London. The name ""Norwood"" is a contraction of ""North Wood"". Local legend has it that Sir Francis Drake's ship, ""The Golden Hind"", was made from timber cut from trees in this area. The forest was a popular area for Londoners' recreation until the 19th century, when it began to be built over. It was also"
"Potter wrote this description of him: Many theories have been put forward to how he received his name. In 1907, a reference was made to the 'bluelight' of his eloquence; another suggestion was that of his ""blue nose"" in winter, or that he sold blue-tipped matches. 'Bluelight' was also a Victorian term for teetotaller or temperance worker. Although he spoke out against the dangers of alcohol, there is no evidence to prove that this was the case. There are several reminders of him in the Norwich area. The Crude Apache theatre company produced a play about his life, entitled """"Nature's"
"between Ned Kelly and Robin Hood; the tradition maintains that he buried his takings under ""a tree marked with the Ace of Spades"". The roof beams of the Palace of Westminster in London and the Royal Palace in Amsterdam are said to have been made from ancient oaks felled when Cratloe Woods were cleared. Traditionally, it is claimed that wood from the forest was used in St. Mary's Cathedral in Limerick. The church has its original roof, constructed with Irish oak and with a set of carved misericords—one of the few remaining in Ireland dating from before the 16th century."
"by serpents. Eventually, he was discovered by passing shepherds who named him Iamus after the violet (""ion"") bed. The goddess Persephone and her companion Nymphs were gathering rose, crocus, violet, iris, lily and larkspur blooms in a springtime meadow when she was abducted by the god Hades. ""V. odorata"" may be the species mentioned in Shakespeare's famous lines: Viola odorata Viola odorata is commonly known as wood violet, sweet violet, English violet, common violet, florist's violet, or garden violet. The plant is known as ""Banafsa"", ""Banafsha"" or ""Banaksa"" in India. ""V. odorata"" is native to Europe and Asia, but has"
"the least gale of prosperity will as suddenly sink beneath the blasts of misfortune'. While the societal moral is the same, the oak's argument that 'one swallow does not make a summer' looks back to the emblematic story of the gourd and the pine tree. To confuse matters more, the same fable (the name of the tree apart) reappears as ""The Oak and the Rose Tree"" in John Trotter Brockett's ""Select Fables"" (Newcastle 1820), recycling one of Thomas Bewick's woodcuts. Similar imagery is found in an anonymous Chan poem from China which involves a pine tree and unspecified flowers: The"
"Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree is a Scottish fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his ""Celtic Fairy Tales"". It is Aarne-Thompson type 709, Snow White. Others of this type include ""Bella Venezia"", ""Nourie Hadig"", ""La petite Toute-Belle"" and ""Myrsina"". A king had a wife, Silver-Tree, and a daughter, Gold-Tree. One day they walked by a pond, and Silver-Tree asked a trout if she was the most beautiful queen in the world, whereupon the trout said that Gold-Tree was more beautiful. Silver-Tree took to her bed and declared she would never be well unless she ate Gold-Tree's heart and"
"mother as seen in the evergreen boughs. Her name is believed to be derived from the Celtic word for oak trees, * or *. She is known as ""Queen of the Druids"". She is a goddess of fertility for both plants & humans, ruling over sexual activities & passion. She also rules protection of trees, knowledge, creativity. ""The White Goddess"" has been seen as a poetic work where Graves gives his notion of man's subjection to women in love an ""anthropological grandeur"" and further mythologises all women in general (and several of Graves's lovers in specific) into a three-faced moon"
"The Halloween Tree The Halloween Tree is a 1972 fantasy novel by American author Ray Bradbury, which traces the history of Samhain and Halloween. A group of eight boys set out to go trick-or-treating on Halloween, only to discover that a ninth friend, Pipkin, has been whisked away on a journey that could determine whether he lives or dies. Through the help of a mysterious character named Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud, they pursue their friend across time and space through Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek, and Ancient Roman cultures, Celtic Druidism, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Medieval Paris, and The Day of"
"deduces influence from and parallels with ""King Lear"". Drout also writes about the evolution of events in the narrative using material from the ""History of Middle-earth"" series. The events of the battle are also analysed in ""Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination"" by Richard Matthews, which explores ""how fantasy uses the elements of enchantment and the supernatural to explode everyday reality and create profound insights into essential human realities."" The Battle of Mirkwood, also known as Battle Under the Trees, is an incident in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. In his legendarium it takes place during the War"
"Musides' statue has been crushed into unrecognizable pieces. Musides himself is nowhere to be found. The end of the story recalls the Latin aphorism that precedes the text: """"Fata viam invenient"""" (""fate will find a way""). The Tree (short story) ""The Tree"" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in ""The Tryout"". Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences. Lovecraft wrote ""The Tree"" early in his career. He was dismissive of the story in a"
"that ""Blackwood's life parallels his work more neatly than perhaps that of any other ghost story writer. Like his lonely but fundamentally optimistic protagonists, he was a combination of mystic and outdoorsman; when he wasn't steeping himself in occultism, including Rosicrucianism and Buddhism, he was likely to be skiing or mountain climbing."" Blackwood was a member of one of the factions of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as was his contemporary Arthur Machen. Cabalistic themes influence his novel ""The Human Chord"". His two best known stories are probably ""The Willows"" and ""The Wendigo"". He would also often write"
"people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself. (Puck, who refers to himself as ""the oldest Old Thing in England"", is better known as a character in William Shakespeare's play ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"".) The genres of particular stories range from authentic historical novella (A Centurion of the Thirtieth, On the Great Wall) to children's fantasy (Dymchurch Flit). Each story is bracketed by a poem which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story. Donald Mackenzie, who wrote the introduction for the Oxford World's Classics edition of ""Puck of"