![]() ![]() ![]() Blackwood is a master of maintaining an eerie atmosphere no small feat over 80 or so pages. Once settled on the shrinking island the two men are disturbed by several unsettling happenings. One of the men is the aforementioned narrator and the other is an initially phlegmatic Swede. Two men are attempting to canoe the entire course of the Danube (as Blackwood himself had done) until they are forced by high flood waters to take refuge on a tiny, crumbling, willow infested island. Blackwood was a great lover of the natural world and it shows in the elegant first person prose characterizing the elements as described by the unnamed narrator of this novella. The Willows was first published in 1907 and is not a ghost story. If you have ever picked up one of the multitude of anthologies that profess to contain the best ghost stories it is a good bet that one, if not more, of Blackwood's tales will be included. Review from BadelyngeAs someone who has had a lifetime fascination with ghost stories and mythology I could hardly ignore the works of Algernon Blackwood. ![]()
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