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Algernon Blackwood

1869 - 1951

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Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Algernon Blackwood has received more than 665,416 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Algernon Blackwood is the 29th most popular occultist (up from 30th in 2019), the 1,509th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,611th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Occultist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Algernon Blackwood ranks 29 out of 37. Before him are Robert Fludd, Franz Bardon, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Nina Kulagina, Michael Scot, and Joséphin Péladan. After him are Stanislas de Guaita, A. E. Waite, Elias Ashmole, Dion Fortune, Otto Witte, and Israel Regardie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Algernon Blackwood ranks 63. Before him are Hjalmar Söderberg, Ludwig von Reuter, Yevno Azef, Washington Luís, Zinaida Gippius, and Caterina Albert. After him are Julius Dorpmüller, Hans Poelzig, Stanisław Wojciechowski, Otto Nordenskjöld, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, and Harvey Cushing. Among people deceased in 1951, Algernon Blackwood ranks 52. Before him are Ernst von Weizsäcker, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Kim Chaek, Artur Schnabel, François Georges-Picot, and Ferdinand Sauerbruch. After him are Lincoln Ellsworth, Du Yuesheng, Mikhail Borodin, Adam Stefan Sapieha, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, and Wols.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Algernon Blackwood ranks 1,509 out of 7,765. Before him are Dick Taylor (1943), John Martin (1789), Sidney Paget (1860), Bill Ward (1948), Lord William Bentinck (1774), and N. R. Pogson (1829). After him are John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Vita Sackville-West (1892), David Garrick (1717), Billy Connolly (1942), Constantine II of Scotland (801), and Jasper Tudor (1431).

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Among OCCULTISTS In United Kingdom

Among occultists born in United Kingdom, Algernon Blackwood ranks 9. Before him are Edward Kelley (1555), Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854), Alice Bailey (1880), Robert Fludd (1574), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), and Michael Scot (1175). After him are Elias Ashmole (1617), Dion Fortune (1890), and Israel Regardie (1907).

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