Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo: A Two-Minute Summary and a Literary Analysis
Rivaled in popularity only by “The Willows” – and the contest is a close one – Blackwood’s “The Wendigo” pairs finely with its older cousin, being a horror story of which follows two campers as they steal away from the distractions of civilization, into a remote hinterland of un-peopled wilderness. Both stories are haunted by an Outer Being – a supernatural force spiteful of mankind, redolent with cosmic power, and only tangentially recognizable through the blind impressions