The Willows

Name: The Willows
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Algernon Blackwood
ISBN: 9781950524846

Author: Algernon Blackwood

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Unabridged: 2 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Published: 09/24/2021

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Ghost

Synopsis

H.P. Lovecraft considered The Willows to be "the finest supernatural tale in English Literature", and its appeal is obvious. In his tale of an adventurous duo who embark on a seemingly innocuous river trip down the Danube, Blackwood personifies the desolate willows to be ominous, alive, and menacing. The river itself brims with human passions, and the elemental winds and heavenly forces all combine to create a sense of a supernatural intelligence orchestrating it all. ¶ The result is a splendid novella that paved a significant path in the world of weird fiction and cosmic horror. You don't want miss this unparalleled trip down the ancient, haunted Danube.

About Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) led a
rich and varied life. Storyteller, mystic, adventurer, and radio and television
personality, he is best remembered for his two superlative horror stories, “The
Willows” and “The Wendigo.” But in his lifetime he wrote over 150 stories, at
least a dozen novels, two plays, and quite a few children’s books as well. By
the time of his death, he had become one of the greatest writers of
supernatural fiction in the twentieth century.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

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

Goodreads review by Henry

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

Goodreads review by J.L.

“We had “strayed,” as the Swede put it, into some region or some set of conditions where the risks were great, yet unintelligible to us; where the frontiers of some unknown world lay close about us." Loved Algernon Blackwood's The Willows! Everything about the wilderness the protagonists travel throu......more