Of the quality of Mr Blackwood's genius there can be no dispute; for no one has ever approached the skill, seriousness, and minute fidelity whith which he records the overtones of strangeness in ordinary things and experiences. <b> H.P. Lovecraft</b> To many, including H.P. Lovecraft, The Willows is the finest story in the canon of supernatural fiction. ( ) Blackwood himself is, arguably, the central figure in the British supernatural literature of the twentieth century. <b> Michael Dirda, <i>New York Review of Books</i></b>