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    The Wendigo (Unabridged): Horror Classic - A dark and thrilling story, which introduced the legend to horror fiction
    The Wendigo (Unabridged): Horror Classic - A dark and thrilling story, which introduced the legend to horror fiction
    The Wendigo (Unabridged): Horror Classic - A dark and thrilling story, which introduced the legend to horror fiction
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    The Wendigo (Unabridged): Horror Classic - A dark and thrilling story, which introduced the legend to horror fiction

    By Algernon Blackwood

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    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Wendigo (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
    This thrilling story is based on Blackwood's experience's hunting in the backwoods of Canada. A group of men deep in the Northern wilderness are visited by a terrifying creature from Native American legend…
    Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publishere-artnow
    Release dateAug 28, 2015
    ISBN9788026843610
    The Wendigo (Unabridged): Horror Classic - A dark and thrilling story, which introduced the legend to horror fiction
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    Algernon Blackwood

    Algernon Blackwood was a master of supernatural fiction, known for his ability to create a sense of unease and tension in his readers. His writing often explored the boundary between the natural and supernatural worlds, and the psychological impact of encountering the unknown.

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      The Wendigo (Unabridged) - Algernon Blackwood

      Algernon Blackwood

      The Wendigo

      (Unabridged)

      From one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories, also known for Jimbo, The Willows, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, John Silence, The Wave, The Listener and Other Stories…

      e-artnow, 2015

      Contact: info@e-artnow.org

      ISBN 978-80-268-4361-0

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      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. Cathcart, among others, came back without a trophy; but he brought instead the memory of an experience which he declares was worth all the bull-moose that had ever been shot. But then Cathcart, of Aberdeen, was interested in other things besides moose—amongst them the vagaries of the human mind. This particular story, however, found no mention in his book on Collective Hallucination for the simple reason (so he confided once to a fellow colleague) that he himself played too intimate a part in it to form a competent judgment of the affair as a whole.

      Besides himself and his guide, Hank Davis, there was young Simpson, his nephew, a divinity student destined for the Wee Kirk (then on his first visit to Canadian backwoods), and the latter’s guide, Défago. Joseph Défago was a French Canuck, who had strayed from his native Province of Quebec years before, and had got caught in Rat Portage when the Canadian Pacific Railway was a-building; a man who, in addition to his unparalleled knowledge of woodcraft and bush-lore, could also sing the old voyageur songs and tell a capital hunting yarn into the bargain. He was deeply susceptible, moreover, to that singular spell which the wilderness lays upon certain lonely natures, and he loved the wild solitudes with a kind of romantic passion that amounted almost to an obsession. The life of the backwoods fascinated him—whence, doubtless, his surpassing efficiency in dealing with their mysteries.

      On this particular expedition he was Hank’s choice. Hank knew him and swore by him. He also swore at him, jest as a pal might, and since he had a vocabulary of picturesque, if utterly meaningless, oaths, the conversation between the two stalwart and hardy woodsmen was often of a rather lively description. This river of expletives however, Hank agreed to dam a little out of respect for his old hunting boss, Dr. Cathcart, whom of course he addressed after the fashion of the country as Doc; and also because he understood that young Simpson was already a bit of a parson. He had, however, one objection to Défago, and one only—which was, that the French Canadian sometimes exhibited what Hank described as the output of a cursed and dismal mind, meaning apparently that he sometimes was true to type, Latin type, and suffered fits of a kind of silent moroseness when nothing could induce him to titter speech. Défago, that is to say, was imaginative and melancholy. And, as a rule, it was too long a spell of civilisation that induced the attacks, for a few days of the wilderness invariably cured them.

      This, then, was the party of four that found themselves in camp the last week in October of that shy moose year ’wa yup in the wilderness north of Rat Portage—a forsaken and desolate country. There was also Punk, an Indian, who had accompanied Dr. Cathcart and Hank on their hunting trips in previous years, and who acted as cook. His duty was merely to stay in camp, catch fish, and prepare venison steaks and coffee at a few minutes’ notice. He dressed in the worn-out clothes bequeathed to him by former patrons, and, except for his coarse black hair and dark skin, he looked in these city garments no more like a real redskin than a stage negro looks like a real African. For all that, however, Punk had in him still the instincts of his dying race; his taciturn silence and his endurance survived; also his superstition.

      The party round the blazing fire that night were despondent, for a week had passed without a single sign of recent moose discovering itself. Défago had sung his song and plunged into a story, but Hank, in bad humour, reminded him so often that he kep’ mussing-up the fac’s so, that it was ’most all nothin’ but a petred-out lie, that the Frenchman had finally subsided into a sulky silence which nothing seemed likely to break. Dr. Cathcart and his nephew were fairly done after an exhausting day. Punk was washing up the dishes, grunting to himself under the lean-to of branches, where he later also slept. No one troubled to stir the slowly dying fire. Overhead the stars were brilliant in a sky quite wintry, and there was so little wind that ice was already forming stealthily along the shores of the still lake behind them. The silence of the vast listening forest stole forward and enveloped them.

      Hank broke in suddenly with his nasal voice.

      I’m in favour of breaking new ground to-morrow, Doc, he observed with energy, looking across at his employer. We don’t stand a chance around here.

      Agreed, said Cathcart, always a man of few words. Think the idea’s good.

      Sure pop, it’s good, Hank resumed with confidence. "S’pose, now, you and I strike west, up Garden Lake way for

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