Fantasy Blackwood, Algernon: Sambo and Snitch. v1. 23 Jan 2022

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It was boiling hot in the garden and the twelve o’clock bell had been ringing for a whole minute when Sambo, aged six, popped his head out of the cow-shed door and said, “Oh, bother!” … As he dawdles in to lunch, he spots a large brown lizard. And it speaks to him!

So begin the adventures of Sambo and Snitch. A charming children’s tale.

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One of the foremost British writers of supernatural tales in the twentieth century, Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) wrote stories in which the slow accumulation of telling details produced a foreboding atmosphere of almost unendurable tension. Though he wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, “His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer’s except Dunsany’s.”

Blackwood’s literary renown began in 1908 with the publication of a highly successful collection of stories, John Silence — Physician Extraordinary, featuring a “psychic doctor.” His two best known stories are probably “The Willows” and “The Wendigo”.

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Sambo and Snitch, by Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), was first published in 1927. This ebook is in the public domain where copyright is “Life+70” or less.
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