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The Wendigo By Algernon Blackwood A considerable number of hunting parties were out that year without finding so much as a fresh trail; for the moose were uncommonly shy, and the various Nimrods returned to the bosoms of their respective families with the best excuses the facts or their imaginations could suggest. Dr. The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood I A considerable number of hunting parties were out that year without finding so much as a fresh trail; for the moose were uncommonly shy, and the various Nimrods returned to the bosoms of their respective families with the best excuses the facts of their ima-ginations could suggest. Dr. Cathcart, among others,File Size: KB.  · A wendigo is a creature from Native American folklore, appearing in the stories of many northern tribes, and the name comes from the Ojibwe. Wendigos attack isolated people; one origin story suggests that humans who resort to cannibalism become wendigos. The classic Blackwood tale is not particularly concerned with this www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins.

Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo is one of the best known "ghost stories." Chances are, if you've read any of the widely produced ghost story compilations, you're familiar with a version of his tale (I know I remember reading it as a child, although without the weird racist bits). A wendigo is a creature from Native American folklore. Thoreau Meets the Unnamable: Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo". Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard's sandbox. Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo, is an influential novella by one of the best-known writers of fantasy and horror, set in a place and time Blackwood knew well. It tells the story of a camping trip in the Canadian wilderness that goes horribly wrong when the hunters become the hunted.

The Wendigo is an influential horror novella by Algernon Blackwood, which was first published in a collected fiction book called The Lost Valley and Other Stories, in The story follows a doctor, his nephew and their party on a moose hunting trip into the deepest wilderness of northern Canada. The Wendigo is the call of the wild personified and one of the hunters answered the call and some say he had seen the Wendigo This was another creepy story by Algernon Blackwood. It wasn't as good as THE WILLOWS mostly because of the outdated language but it was still atmospheric. A wendigo is a creature from Native American folklore, appearing in the stories of many northern tribes, and the name comes from the Ojibwe. Wendigos attack isolated people; one origin story suggests that humans who resort to cannibalism become wendigos. The classic Blackwood tale is not particularly concerned with this mythology.