The Willows

by Algernon Blackwood Narrated by David McCord

Overview

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment-river, sun, wind-and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which "moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible."

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Emrys' masterful annotations and enlightening introduction provide fine insights into how the weird casts its spell in Blackwood's classic story.”—David Sandner, editor of The Afterlife of Frankenstein

“Emrys sketches the work’s historical, ecological, and literary context in sharply written and insightful notes that are an absolute pleasure to read.” —Rebecca Campbell, Ursula K. Le Guin Prize–winning author of Arboreality

"This is where slow-burn horror originated.” —Brian Evenson, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173140678
Publisher:	Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Publication date:	05/14/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged

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