![]() ![]() He was an avid lover of nature and the outdoors, and many of his stories reflect this. He also wrote fourteen novels, several children's books, and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. ![]() He was very successful, writing at least ten original collections of short stories and eventually appearing on both radio and television to tell them. ![]() ![]() In his late thirties, he moved back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt, "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appallingly narrow religious ideas." Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and, throughout his adult life, an occasional essayist for various periodicals. Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. ![]()
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