![]() 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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Though Elisabeth Moss’s portrayal of Jackson is spectacular and sometimes uncanny (they nail those slightly off-kilter glasses), and while some of the most famous and passed-around elements of Jackson’s biography are represented-she was a witch, didn’t you know, and her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman (here evoked savagely by a smarmy, superior, and manipulative Michael Stuhlbarg) had semi-sanctioned affairs-this film is closer to a folded, complex form of fan fiction, bringing in elements from Jackson’s life as well as from her writing. ![]() This weekend saw the release of Josephine Decker’s Shirley, which is being described in many places as a biopic of genius American writer Shirley Jackson, but, well, absolutely is not. ![]() ![]() ![]() 10-14)Īdventure drags our heroine all over the map of fantasyland while giving her the opportunity to use her smarts.Įlisa-Princess Lucero-Elisa de Riqueza of Orovalle-has been chosen for Service since the day she was born, when a beam of holy light put a Godstone in her navel. ![]() sexy.” The disturbing definition of female sexiness just tops off this queen’s notably passive and love-focused role, and may well outweigh Brennan’s sweet touches and lovely final revelations. 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