The Algernon Blackwood Collection includes four of Blackwood's best: The Empty House, The Damned, The Willows and The Wendigo.

The Algernon Blackwood Collection includes four of the best Blackwood novellas: The Empty House, The Damned, The Willows and The Wendigo.

"The Willows" is a novella English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Wikipedia

In this episode, we look at Algernon Blackwood's story, 'The Man Whom the Trees Loved', which was published in his collection Pan's Garden (1912). The story concerns David and Sophia Bittacy, a married couple living on the edge of the New Forest. Under the influence of the bohemian painter, Sanderson, David becomes increasingly obsessed with the inner life of the trees in the neighbouring forest.

The Wendigo is a novella by Algernon Blackwood, first published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories.

Collected here, in a single volume, are two of Algernon Blackwood's best-known weird short stories: "The Willows" and "The Wendigo."

Algernon Blackwood was a prolific writer across short stories, novels and plays. His passion for the supernatural and for ghost stories together with a fascination for all things in the occult and mysticism created some of the most enthralling works ever written. HP Lovecraft referred to his works as that of a master. .