Tychy: A Portrait of Algernon Blackwood

The Tychy blog is running a longish and detailed look into the life and works of Algernon Blackwood. No mere biography, the first Tychy article (of a probable six) on the writer appeared last week, armed with a sharply critical edge that takes issue with both Blackwood and previous biographers. This is all conducted in the hopes of unraveling some of the man's mystery, a call for objectivity in a field of Blackwood research dominated by rosy views of the subject.

Tychy's piece is hopefully the first in a full series of explorations on Blackwood. It's also further evidence that the internet--and blogs in particular--is picking up the slack in today's weird fiction scholarship. With the demise of many small press publications offering an outlet for observations on the weird, many researchers are throwing their work out on the web for free. Though it lacks the formality and pomp of physical print, the ease of access is a boon to admirers of the weird.

-Grim Blogger