What they find…, well, you’ll just have to read the story. He returns with his uncle and the other guide. The nephew manages to return to the base camp after failing to find the guide. They get further and further apart until they are further apart than a human can stride. The nephew follows two sets of tracks in the snow. Then the guide runs screaming into the forest just as the sun is rising. First there’s strange smell that disappears as quickly as it comes. The nephew and his guide have an encounter with a wendigo, a creature of Native American legend. The uncle and his guide go west, the nephew and his guide canoe across the lake they are camped by and hike some distance to another lake, and the cook stays in the base camp await their return. A psychiatrist, his nephew, two guides, and a cook are having no luck on their hunt, so they decide to split up. It concerns a group on a moose hunting expedition in the Canadian wilderness. Howard.Īlong with “The Willows”, “The Wendigo” is one of Blackwood’s best known tales. Blackwood was a major influence on many writers of the weird tale in the early years of the 20th Century, including H. British author Algernon Blackwood was born on this date, March 14, in 1869.
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