High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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".