One of Lovecraft's three favorite writers (along with Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Machen). An ascetic who worshiped the primordial elements of Nature. The first author of “strange stories”, who successfully appeared on radio and television. The creator of amazing fairy tales and parables that gave a second wind to British and American folklore... All this is Algernon Blackwood, one of the loneliest and most famous writers of Foggy Albion. The novel "Centaur", imbued with a passionate search for unity with the Prime World of the Earth, is the quintessence of the philosophy of Blackwood, who believed that people can overcome the path through the Temple of the Past and discover the lost life-giving connections with the Universe.