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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood The Wendigo is a novella by Algernon Blackwood, first published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories. Plot Summary: In the wilderness north of Rat Portage in Northwestern Ontario, two Scotsmen – divinity student Simpson and his uncle, Dr. Cathcart, an author of a book on collective hallucination – are on a moose-hunting trip with guides Hank Davis and the wilderness-loving French "Canuck", Joseph Défago. While their Indian cook, Punk, stays to tend the main camp, the others split up into two hunting-parties; Dr. Cathcart goes with Hank, while Défago guides Simpson in a canoe down the river to explore the vast territory beyond. Simpson and Défago make camp, and it soon becomes clear that Défago senses – or thinks he senses – some strange and fearful odour on the wind. That night, Simpson wakes to find Défago cowering in terror from something outside the tent. Later Défago runs off into the night, forcing Simpson to go and look for him. He follows his footprints in the snow for many miles, realising that Défago's are not the only set of tracks. The larger set of footprints are not human, and gradually it seems that Défago's own tracks have metamorphosed into smaller versions of the larger set. Eventually, both sets of tracks vanish, and Simpson thinks he hears Défago's distant voice calling out from somewhere in the sky above. Simpson finally manages to make his way back to the main camp where he is reunited with the others. Dr. Cathcart and Hank go back with him to search for Défago, and when camping once more out in the wilderness, Défago – or some hideous parody of Défago – appears before them before vanishing once again into the night.

Born from an ancient native American tale about a mythical cannibalistic spirit that could possess humans, Algemon Blackwood's The Wendingo is a tale of mystery and horror that is widely considered by critics to be Blackwood's most well-written and exciting stories.While also being known for writings such as A Physical Invasion, Blackwood is most renowned for writing The Wendingo – a scary story that is definitely not to be read before bed time.The Wendingo itself is basically one of the creepiest campfire stories of all time. The creature itself is believed to have originated in the myths and folklore of Native Americans who believed in it as an explanation for cannibalism. The Wendingo was allegedly believed to possess human victims in order to control and use them for that exact purpose.The plot of the story is quite simple. It is set in the northern Canadian timberland, and tells the tale of four men who set out in the wilderness of these parts to hunt for moose. Dr. Cathcart and his nephew Simpson are accompanied by two guides on their journey, and they all encounter a few of the frightening signs associated with the Wendingo myth.The imagery and narrative skills that Algemon Blackwood displays in The Wendingo are quite remarkable in their quality and diversity. Basically, you will enjoy every ounce of it, while being scared out of your wits.Anyone who enjoys a good scary story, and wants something a little more unique than a regular murder mystery will be completely entranced and fascinated by The Wendingo. Algemon Blackwood's writing skill and remarkable ability to make a story truly worth reading will help you realize just how much you can take away from this well-written work of literary art that has remained a timeless and quite well-known horror story throughout the years.

A hunting trip in the Canadian wilderness takes a bad turn when one of the hunting party disappears. Young Simpson tracks the missing hunter to find his tracks mysteriously change. They now look like the supernatural being of native lore--the Wendigo! The hunters find Défago but it may be too late for him. This horrifying tale is now a striking graphic novel adaptation. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Yet, ever at the back of his thoughts, lay that other aspect of the wilderness: the indifference to human life, the merciless spirit of desolation which took no note of man... "His stories are of things unearthly and of beings and events impossible, but he writes of them with such poetry and such illusive power that no one of us can say, during the reading or after the reading of them, that such things cannot be. Mr. Blackwood does not hypnotize us by his verbal magic. He has no sleight of hand with words. He convinces us for all time, and therein lies his literary art and his imaginative power." -Boston Transcript "Always there is the artistic restraint, the touch of a genuine poetic feeling which lifts even such bit of hideous superstition as that which forms the keynote of 'The Windigo' into the realm of beauty." -The New York Times "No recent author has approached Algernon Blackwood in fineness of imagination as applied to the unseen and uncanny side of life." -Outlook "Mr. Blackwood has always used his occult knowledge of imaginings rather seriously, sometimes with a definitely moral purpose." -The London Times "Mr. Blackwood has never 'written down,' never lowered the high standards of his fine and beautiful art." -The New York Times Book Review

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood The Wendigo is a novella by Algernon Blackwood, first published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories. Plot Summary: In the wilderness north of Rat Portage in Northwestern Ontario, two Scotsmen – divinity student Simpson and his uncle, Dr. Cathcart, an author of a book on collective hallucination – are on a moose-hunting trip with guides Hank Davis and the wilderness-loving French "Canuck", Joseph Défago. While their Indian cook, Punk, stays to tend the main camp, the others split up into two hunting-parties; Dr. Cathcart goes with Hank, while Défago guides Simpson in a canoe down the river to explore the vast territory beyond. Simpson and Défago make camp, and it soon becomes clear that Défago senses – or thinks he senses – some strange and fearful odour on the wind. That night, Simpson wakes to find Défago cowering in terror from something outside the tent. Later Défago runs off into the night, forcing Simpson to go and look for him. He follows his footprints in the snow for many miles, realising that Défago's are not the only set of tracks. The larger set of footprints are not human, and gradually it seems that Défago's own tracks have metamorphosed into smaller versions of the larger set. Eventually, both sets of tracks vanish, and Simpson thinks he hears Défago's distant voice calling out from somewhere in the sky above. Simpson finally manages to make his way back to the main camp where he is reunited with the others. Dr. Cathcart and Hank go back with him to search for Défago, and when camping once more out in the wilderness, Défago – or some hideous parody of Défago – appears before them before vanishing once again into the night.

Full text.An influential novella by one of the most best-known writers of fantasy and horror, set in a place and time Blackwood knew well.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. According to Robert Aickman, one of the finest British horror writers, The Wendigo is "one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field".