Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 6 minutes "The Wendigo" is a horror novella by Algernon Blackwood, first published in 1910. The story is set in the wilderness of Northwestern Ontario, where two Scotsmen, Simpson and his uncle Dr. Cathcart, are on a moose-hunting trip with guides Hank Davis and Joseph Défago. While camping, Défago senses a strange and fearful odor on the wind, and later runs off into the night, forcing Simpson to go and look for him. Simpson follows his footprints in the snow for many miles, realizing that Défago's are not the only set of tracks. Eventually, both sets of tracks vanish, and Simpson believes he hears Défago's distant voice calling out from somewhere in the sky above. The story ends with the three men left in a state of bafflement and uncertainty about what has occurred. The novella has been praised for its sheer naked concentrated horror, and its influence can be seen in various works of horror fiction, including H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and the horror anthology Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

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Occult and Supernatural fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world. In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can be found in writing from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined by the elimination of "horror", "fantasy", and elements important to other genres.The one genre supernatural fiction appears to embrace in its entirety is the traditional ghost story. Contents: E. F. Benson CATERPILLARS THE SANCTUARY THE THING IN THE HALL THE TERROR BY NIGHT Ambrose Bierce AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT Algernon Blackwood THE WILLOWS Ulric Daubeny THE SUMACH Charles Dickens THE SIGNAL-MAN Arthur Conan Doyle THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX Lord Dunsany DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER William Fryer Harvey ACROSS THE MOORS Nathaniel Hawthorne THE AMBITIOUS GUEST W.W. Jacobs THE MONKEY'S PAW Henry James THE TURN OF THE SCREW Franz Kafka IN THE PENAL COLONY David H. Keller THE THING IN THE CELLAR Henry Kuttner THE GRAVEYARD RATS Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu CARMILLA H.P. Lovecraft AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS THE CALL OF CTHULHU POLARIS THE QUEST OF IRANON THE RATS IN THE WALLS A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON THE SECRET CAVE OR JOHN LEES ADVENTURE THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH THE SHUNNED HOUSE THE SILVER KEY THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST THE STREET THE TEMPLE THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN THE TOMB THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO THE TREE UNDER THE PYRAMIDS THE VERY OLD FOLK WHAT THE MOON BRINGS Arthur Machen THE GREAT GOD PAN M. R. James THE MEZZOTINT THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL THE ASH-TREE NUMBER 13 COUNT MAGNUS A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS Vincent O'Sullivan WHEN I WAS DEAD Edgar Allan Poe THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM THE TELL-TALE HEART Margaret Ronan FINGER! FINGER! Saki GABRIEL-ERNEST THE OPEN WINDOW

Considéré par Lovecraft comme son égal, célébré pendant des décennies comme l'un des maîtres du fantastique, Algernon Blackwood n'a pas en France le public qu'il mérite. La richesse de son oeuvre, la puissance de son inspiration, qui va chercher jusqu'au fond des forêts les mystères qui hantent l'humanité, et sa maîtrise narrative lui vaudraient pourtant de nombreux lecteurs. C'est que Blackwood n'est pas de ces bricoleurs d'épouvante qui se ressemblent tous. Avec lui c'est toute la Création et la Nature, à la fois attirantes et inquiétantes, qui sont convoquées face à des hommes effarés de découvrir ce que leurs âmes recèlent. La formidable puissance de suggestion de ce génie de l'étrange, de cet homme que les mots aimaient, se retrouvera dans les cinq longues nouvelles choisies ici. L'Écossais Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) émigre au Canada puis à New York où il commence à écrire. Son premier livre John Silence, enquêteur de l'occulte, rencontre le succès : il devient l'un des plus prolifiques conteurs d'histoires de fantômes et de mystères, maître de la littérature d'épouvante. On lui doit quinze romans dont trois pour enfants, une centaine d'essais, plus de deux cents nouvelles compilées dans de nombreux recueils. Quatre recueils sont parus en France dans les 60's.

He keeps no ordinary practice. His patients are not turned away for lack of money, but accepted only if their suffering lies beyond the reach of medicine - the woman haunted by something that moves in the walls of her new house, the clergyman whose quiet life has been invaded by a presence older than Christianity, the traveller who returns from a French village with a soul not quite his own. Dr. John Silence - wealthy, learned, monkishly disciplined - is a physician of the unseen, and the cases he takes are the ones no one else dares to name. First published in 1908, this landmark collection helped invent the figure of the occult detective and remains one of the strangest, most atmospheric works in the literature of the supernatural. Blackwood, who knew the borderlands of consciousness better than almost any writer of his age, sends his calm, formidable healer into haunted houses, fire-cults, and the dreaming wildernesses of the human mind - and brings back tales that hum, even now, with a quiet and unmistakable dread. This collection contains the following stories: - A Psychical Invasion - Ancient Sorceries - The Nemesis Of Fire - Secret Worship - The Camp of the Dog - A Victim of Higher Space

Deep in the Canadian backwoods, a hunting party splits up to track moose through the endless northern forest. One guide takes a client out into the trees. Neither of them comes back the same. What begins as a simple wilderness expedition turns into something far older and stranger - a creeping dread, a smell on the wind, a voice calling from the dark, and a presence that moves through the woods on feet that barely touch the ground. Published in 1910, The Wendigo is Algernon Blackwood at his most haunting: a slow, atmospheric tale that helped shape a century of wilderness horror and remains one of the definitive stories of the uncanny North. The trees go on forever. Something is moving between them. Don't listen to this one with the window open.

Two friends. One canoe. A long trip down the Danube into a vast, whispering wilderness of willows and shifting water. It should be the adventure of a lifetime. Instead, as they pitch camp on a small sandy island, something begins to feel wrong. The willows move when there is no wind. Shapes pass overhead in the dark. And slowly, terribly, the two men come to suspect they have wandered into a place where humans were never meant to be - and that something vast and ancient has noticed them. First published in 1907, The Willows is widely considered one of the greatest weird tales ever written. H. P. Lovecraft called it the finest supernatural story in the English language, and its long shadow falls across cosmic horror and folk horror to this day. Algernon Blackwood doesn't bother with monsters or jump scares. He does something far stranger: he makes the landscape itself feel wrong. A slow, hypnotic, deeply unsettling classic of the uncanny.

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 3 minutes "The Willows" is a horror novella by Algernon Blackwood, published in 1907. The story follows two friends on a canoe trip down the River Danube, where they encounter mysterious and malevolent forces in the surrounding environment. The willows, in particular, are characterized as sinister and threatening. The precise nature of these entities is unclear, but they are contrasted with the natural beauty of the area. The story has been influential on later writers and is considered one of Blackwood's best works. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. The novella has been praised for its art and restraint in narrative, producing a lasting impression without a single strained book or false note. "The Willows" has been adapted into various forms, including a magazine and a novel.

A set of twin brothers have spent every waking moment of their lives together and are terrified of separating. However, when both men set their desires upon a mysterious young woman, the deep bonds of their relationship become marred.

The story of a man's deep connection with nature and his wife's fear of it.

A party of campers on a deserted Baltic island is terrorized by a huge wolf... or is it?

The Willows is one of Algernon Blackwood's best known creepy stories. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. He wrote in his treatise "Supernatural Horror in Literature", "Here art and restraint in narrative reach their very highest development, and an impression of lasting poignancy is produced without a single strained passage or a single false note." "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.

Julian LeVallon, born and raised alone in the Jura Mountains, is referred to psychiatrist Dr. Edward Fillery for care in London. But is LeVallon merely a schizophrenic with a secondary personality, "N.H." (non-human), or is he really an Elemental Being, a "bright messenger" who brings, perhaps, a new age of human evolution? And if so, is the human race ready for a major step forward? [Summary by Mark Nelson]

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"

Can people come back from the dead? Can they bring something or someone back from there? If so, can they reach out to people who are still alive? "The Return" and "The Second Generation" are two stories about supernatural occurrences, about people returning from a world, which most of us do not know. Algernon Blackwood sets the readers in a scary and dreadful atmosphere which only the bravest can endure.