For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Discover book depositorys huge selection of algernon blackwood books online. Throughout the story blackwood personifies the surrounding environmentriver, sun, windand imbues them with a powerful. The willows by algernon blackwood i after leaving vienna, and long before you come to budapest, the danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willowbushes.
Racing along at twelve kilometers an hour soon took us well into hungary, and the muddy waterssure sign of floodsent us aground on many a shinglebed, and twisted us like a cork in many a sudden. Everything we produce features custom professional voice acting. This story written in 1907 has stood the test of time. Wikipedia book the willows version 2 m4b audio book 64mb. Chilling tales for dark nights produces alloriginal horror audio content. Algernon blackwood 18691951 was an english short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Algernon blackwood is probably best known for this story and another classic the wendigo. Lovecraft called the willows, by algernon blackwood a great name by the way, the. Perhaps blackwood s most celebrated story, the willows was influenced heavily by his own trips down the danube river. The willows algernon blackwood audiobook and ebook. Algernon blackwoods best known novella, the willows, is considered by h. Algernon blackwood audio books, best sellers, author bio.
Set on the snaking, sinuous danube river, algernon blackwoods tale the willows represents a high point in the development of the horror genre in fact, horror master h. It is a novella, and has a bare minimum of dialog between the narrator and his good friend, the swede. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in english. The willows is a novella by english author algernon blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection the listener and other stories two friends are taking a break from a canoetrip down the snaking, sinuous danube river when they discover the corpse of a peasant in the woods. Published in the early 1900s as part of a collection of stories, h.
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Perhaps blackwoods most celebrated story, the willows was influenced heavily by his own trips down the danube river. It tells the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night, a place where another dimension impinges on our own. Storyteller, mystic, adventurer, and radio and television personality, he is best remembered for his two superlative horror stories, the willows and. The willows is one of algernon blackwoods best known creepy stories. Browse algernon blackwoods best selling audiobooks and newest titles. It is one of blackwood s best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Blackwood was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. The willows is one of blackwoods bestknown works and has been influential on a number of later writers.
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