The Willows

Two friends are going down Danube in a canoe… The river is in flood… It is excruciatingly hot an the strong wind is blowing… They find themselves  in an unpopulated area of swamps… We entered the land of desolation on wings, and in less than half an hour there was neither boat nor fishing-hut nor red......more

H. P. Lovecraft called "The Willows", by Algernon Blackwood a great name by the way the "best weird tale of all time", you be the judge ... In the early part of the Twentieth Century two experienced young adventurers decided to take a canoe trip, down the famous Danube River during the summer how gl......more

Published in the early 1900s as part of a collection of stories, H.P. Lovecraft felt that Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows was simply the greatest tale of the supernatural in English literature. It is a novella, and has a bare minimum of dialog between the narrator and his good friend, the Swede. It......more

What a beautifully written atmospheric and creepy story this was. Timeless in the quality of the eerie telling of this fine strange tale. It is a short story yet it leaves you satisfied without the need for a lengthy book. Very imaginative writing weaves a slow and steady building of a foreboding el......more

...something so big and yet immaterial, out of reach and yet reaching for you; two men on a canoe trip down the Danube - what wonders! what beauty! what bliss! - find there are worlds and things beyond us, terrible and awe-inspiring things, inexplicable things, things that rise from the willows, thi......more