Wendigo [Paperback]

Algernon Blackwood (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2002

There was something alive and hunting in the north woods as vast as a world. . . . A legend, the Wendigo. The hunter of men.

Product Details

• Paperback: 116 pages
• Publisher: Borgo Press (October 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587155443
• ISBN-13: 978-1587155444
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,656,718 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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55 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Scary Stories Ever Written, April 29, 2003

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This review is from: Wendigo (Paperback)

"The Wendigo" is widely regarded as one of Blackwoods best stories and is among the best and scariest stories ever written. "A Psychical Invasion", also by Blackwood, comes a close second. Anyone who has ever been out in the woods alone, particularly at night, will instantly be transported to that time and place by "The Wendigo". This one is not to be read before bedtime. All of Blackwood's stories, including the less scary or supernatural ones, are the best in English literature. The writing is exquisitely beautiful yet easy to read, evoking images and moods like nothing else I have ever read. If you've never read Algernon Blackwood, you have missed out on a profound and intense experience.
I can also recommend the recently published biography by Mike Ashley(not sure if I remembered his name right). It is interesting and well-researched.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do not read before camping, June 2, 2007

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David Price "casts a shadow" (Peabody, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wendigo (Paperback)

Precisely the story not to sit around the campfire and read aloud, which is what makes it so perfect for just that. This is one of the greatest creepy, lost in the scary woods stories ever written. If there is one drawback, it is that it is too short. It would have been much better served at two to three times its length. It ends, and you just wish there was more.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Have You Seen the Wendigo?, August 29, 2009

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Margaret Kohut "Vienna" (Montana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wendigo (Kindle Edition)

This one takes a bit to really get going, but pay serious attention to the sly hints and subtle precursors that Blackwood seeds among the first 50+ pages' because you'll need them to understand later events in this truly scary story. Living in the northern woods of the Great Empire of Montana, the legend of the Wendigo is pretty well-known, and often told on Indian reservations and dude ranches to scare the "outlanders." This is a legend that originated in north Canada by the Ojibwa tribe and made its way first to the Maine north woods, and on further west. In these modern times, somebody acting crazy is still referred to as having "seen the Wendigo."

Deep, uninhabited forrests still unknown and untouched by the chain saw. Two hunters, their guides, and a legend-come-to-life where they are beyond help; isolated in the total and mysterious depth and eternal silence of the ageless backwoods. Although this story was written in 1910, Stephen King, a dweller of north Maine, cites it as a work that influenced him by its "creepiness." It gets creepier page by page - no guts and gore, but eerie with its strange progression. If you're an outdoorsman/woman, this tale will have you looking not around your shoulder, but over your head in great uneasiness.

Buy this one - or you'll be said to have "seen the Wendigo!"

Thanks for reading,

Vienna
Great Empire of Montana
Rocky Mountain Way Freelance Writing