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The Sherlock Holmes of the Occult World

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Algernon Blackwood’s supernatural investigator John Silence comes straight out of the Sherlock Holmes playbook. Blackwood, almost exactly ten years older than Arthur Conan Doyle, was hardly the only author of his generation to imitate the Holmes stories. In the closing years of the nineteenth century, around 800 weekly periodicals were published in Brit…

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