Blackwood, Algernon (1869-1951), was a British novelist and short-story writer who specialized in ghost stories and other tales of the supernatural. His best-known work is John Silence (1908), a series of stories about a detective who was a spiritualist. His volume of short stories Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural appeared in 1949. He also wrote two children’s books.
Blackwood was born on March 14, 1869, in Crayford, now in the London borough of Bexley, and was educated at Edinburgh University. He died on Dec. 10, 1951.
