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 an English short story writer best known for ghost and horror stories. Blackwood's best known works are The Willows and The Wendigo.

The Willows, The Wendigo, and The Listener.** He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere **pronounced H. P. Lovecraft of Algernon Blackwood.

The Willows is famous for being influential on a number of later writers, in particular horror author H.P. Lovecraft who praised it as the finest supernatural tale in English literature. The set-up is intriguing: Two friends are taking a break from a canoe-trip down the snaking, sinuous Danube River when they discover the corpse of a peasant in the woods. When they return to their canoe the oars are missing. As night sets in, a general creeping sense of unease permeates the wild and rural setting...

"The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray." "The Wendigo" is a ghost story about five men getting lost in the Canadianfrontier. Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English journalist and novelist born in Shooter's Hill, England.He is one of the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre.