If The Wendigo is anything like The Centaur, by Algernon Blackwood, I am so looking forward to listening to this tonight. The Centaur haunted me for decades, bc it was included in a horror anthology I read long ago, but couldn't recall who wrote it, or even the title of it. I finally found it and it was truly a mix of strangeness and beauty and otherworldly longing and of things unseen, but sensed. Lovers of Stephen King or Clive Barker style of horror would've been disappointed, I'm sure. Anyway, thank you for posting this. I can't wait to get into it.
Thank you again for posting this. It seems very timely, in view of all the strange disappearances going on in many of our national parks, these days. Of all the creatures that supposedly inhabit our woods, the wendigo is, by far, my favorite! That it was once a man driven to cannibalism and ultimate madness, transformed into a monster hungering for human flesh, is terrifying to me. My one critique, and it's a personal preference, is that I prefer reading to narration. I can imagine the characters and setting and conjure up the story so much better in my own mind, bc I know what scares me. Again, thank you. My camping trips and hikes to the woods will have a new layer of apprehension added to them!
I love Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo," and there have been several attempts to bring it tothe screen, but I haven't found that any of them capture the haunting nature of Blackwood's wonderful elusive writing.
If The Wendigo is anything like The Centaur, by Algernon Blackwood, I am so looking forward to listening to this tonight. The Centaur haunted me for decades, bc it was included in a horror anthology I read long ago, but couldn't recall who wrote it, or even the title of it. I finally found it and it was truly a mix of strangeness and beauty and otherworldly longing and of things unseen, but sensed. Lovers of Stephen King or Clive Barker style of horror would've been disappointed, I'm sure. Anyway, thank you for posting this. I can't wait to get into it.
My pleasure
Thank you again for posting this. It seems very timely, in view of all the strange disappearances going on in many of our national parks, these days. Of all the creatures that supposedly inhabit our woods, the wendigo is, by far, my favorite! That it was once a man driven to cannibalism and ultimate madness, transformed into a monster hungering for human flesh, is terrifying to me. My one critique, and it's a personal preference, is that I prefer reading to narration. I can imagine the characters and setting and conjure up the story so much better in my own mind, bc I know what scares me. Again, thank you. My camping trips and hikes to the woods will have a new layer of apprehension added to them!
I love Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo," and there have been several attempts to bring it tothe screen, but I haven't found that any of them capture the haunting nature of Blackwood's wonderful elusive writing.
An utterly amazing and scary story.
Indeed it is