![]() ![]() Tolkien would later cite Blackwood as the source for his iconic phrase "the Crack of Doom." More than that though, Blackwood's themes of a malevolent nature - "the treachery of natural things in an animate world" as Jared Lobdell writes in The World of the Rings - are found throughout Tolkien's writings. ![]() ![]() Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Henry Miller, and Clark Ashton Smith to name a few - including one fellow Englishman who was a 15-year-old student when "The Willows" was published: J.R.R. This passage is from Algernon Blackwood's classic weird tale ' The Willows,' in which two travelers are beset upon (possibly) by a hostile nature - either of this world or from the nebulous Elsewhere.īlackwood's writings would inspire and influence countless authors - H.P. ![]() Untrodden by man, almost unknown to man, it lay there beneath the moon, remote from human influence, on the frontier of another world, an alien world, a world tenanted by willows only and the souls of willows. The eeriness of this lonely island, set among a million willows, swept by a hurricane, and surrounded by hurrying deep waters, touched us both, I fancy. ![]()
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