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The Wendigo

Algernon Blackwood

Book Overview: 

Another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo of legend. Robert Aickman regarded this as "one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field".

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Meanwhile, shouldering the packs between them, each man carrying his own rifle, they followed the slender trail over rocks and fallen trunks and across half-frozen swamps; skirting numerous lakes that fairly gemmed the forest, their borders fringed with mist; and towards five o'clock found themselves suddenly on the edge of the woods, looking out across a large sheet of water in front of them, dotted with pine-clad islands of all describable shapes and sizes.

"Fifty Island Water," announced Défago wearily, "and the sun jest goin' to dip his bald old head into it!" he added, with unconscious poetry; and immediately they set about pitching camp for the night.

In a very few minutes, under those skilful hands that never made a movement too much or a movement too little, the silk tent stood taut and cozy, the beds of balsam boughs ready laid, and a brisk cooking fire burned with the minimum of smoke. While the young Scotchman cleaned. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Algernon Blackwood had an interesting life - before he began to write weird stories he taught the violin, was a bartender, reported for the New York Times, operated a hotel and worked as a farmer in Canada; only in his late thirties did he return to England and started to write stories, using his ma

a rainy, windy, chilly night with nothing to do but gaze lovingly at my overly full bookcases. so why not reread one of my favorite classic horror novellas? this one is about, wait for it, The Wendigo and its prey du jour (du nuit?): some hunters and their guides. but is the story really about this

This was a very strange reading experience. I know that it was written quite a while ago, so I tried to look past some of the blatantly racist portions, but it was hard to do. Some of the language used, and even certain situations, were so obnoxiously racist that I questioned if I wanted to continue

"La fría magnificencia de estos bosques solitarios y remotos le abrumaba y le hacía sentir su propia pequeñez. De la infinidad de copas azulencas que se balanceaban en el horizonte, se desprendía y revelaba por sí misma esa severidad que emana de las vegetaciones enmarañadas y que sólo puede calific

A hunting company, an old folk lore and a member of the hunting company that seems to have changed... the story was a bit slow paced, without the usual twist other Blackwood stories have. I wasn't scared or frightened when toiling through this story. Okay, plotting and prose were immaculate but the

Μια κατάσταση εμπειρική ως έλξη μιας ομορφιάς τρομερής, γλυκιάς και απόκοσμης.
Μία θανάσιμη ομορφιά που κυριαρχεί στο ασυνείδητο του ανθρώπου και δεν την αντέχουν οι αισθήσεις, το Γουέντιγκο είναι ίσως η γλυκερή μυρωδιά που αναδύει η ψυχή λίγο πριν χαθεί στα ακατοίκητα δάση της αιώνιας σιωπής του νο

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