![]() ![]() Their update augments Blackwood’s magnetic prose with exquisite imagery, robust characters, and a deep reverence for the source material. Carson teamed with extraordinary artist Sam Ford, whose mesmerizing illustrations have graced album covers for The Mountain Goats, Agalloch, and Carson’s own Witch Mountain. Multifaceted creator Nathan Carson’s graphic adaptation of The Willows, Blackwood’s most popular story (and Lovecraft’s personal favorite), is a wonderful opportunity to make Blackwood a household name, using an accessible comic format to invite modern readers who may have missed out on the author’s mastery over strange and unnerving subject matter. Despite their plentiful virtues, Blackwood’s tales have been somewhat overlooked as an avenue for adaptation, with infrequent dips into Blackwood’s formidable catalog, mostly as television and radio plays, some dating back far enough to be narrated by Blackwood himself (he died in 1951). As one of horror fiction’s preeminent contributors, his chilling works have influenced many of the world’s best fantasy writers, and astounded readers with a sublime melding of paralyzing suspense, mysticism, and otherworldly terror. Lovecraft, but Britain’s great supernaturalist holds a significant place in the pantheon of weird literature. Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows by Nathan CarsonĪlgernon Blackwood’s name doesn’t permeate today’s pop culture landscape like his contemporary (and admirer) H.P. ![]()
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