Other editions of book Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood, Fiction, Horror

Algernon Blackwood’s The Wendigo is a chilling ghost story about five men lost in the Canadian wilderness. While separated into two hunting parties a terror befalls one pair of the hunters. An ancient evil of the primeval woods pays a visit on them…“For sheer naked concentrated horror, unexplained and unexplainable, such tales as The Wendigo ... may be said to lead among the stories of the supernatural.” - Grace Isabel Colbron.

The Wendigo is an influential horror novella by Algernon Blackwood, which was first published in a collected fiction book called The Lost Valley and Other Stories, in 1910. The story follows a doctor, his nephew and their party on a moose hunting trip into the deepest wilderness of northern Canada. Things take a turn as the party split up and one begins to follow non-human tracks...

In Algonquian folklore, the wendigo is a cannibal monster or evil spirit native to the northern forests of the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region of both the United States and Canada/ Manitoba. The wendigo may appear as a monster with some characteristics of a human, or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. (Jacketless library hardcover.)