The Wendigo
Algernon Blackwood
A Scottish doctor leads a moose-hunting party into the Canadian wilderness and one of the guides is taken by something the local trappers refuse to name aloud. Blackwood drew on Algonquian folklore to write the most influential weird-fiction tale of the wilderness north.
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