Reality Deviants Book Club: Algernon Blackwood

Adam and Pooka discuss Algernon Blackwood’s fiction, his occult interests, his fascination with nature, and what his stories can teach Mage: The Ascension Storytellers about the sublime, supernatural uncertainty, spirits, Correspondence, Awakening, and psychological horror.

Show Notes

Mage 20 SRD
Blackwood, the Golden Dawn, and psychical research
Why “The Willows” remains influential weird fiction
The sublime as a tool for Mage
Correspondence and “A Victim of Higher Space”
Magical instruments in “A Psychical Invasion”
Hermetic magic in “Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House”
Reincarnation and “Ancient Sorceries”
Psychic vampirism and “The Transfer”
Sleepers encountering the supernatural
Playing Awakening instead of relegating it to backstory
Using wilderness settings in Mage and “The Wendigo”
Psychological horror without Nephandi or cosmic monsters
Mystical isolation, obsession, and chantries
Using Sphere perceptions to generate story hooks
Why Blackwood may feel especially appropriate for Mage: The Ascension (Second Edition)

A note on the 1910 wilderness novella

The episode discusses Blackwood’s use of material drawn from Algonquin-speaking Indigenous cultures while distinguishing his Edwardian weird fiction from the living traditions he transformed.

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