The Willows

First published in 1907, Algernon Blackwood's The Willows is widely regarded as one of the greatest supernatural tales ever written-a masterpiece of cosmic dread and quiet terror. Two friends, journeying by canoe along the remote Danube River, find themselves marooned on a small, shifting island where the wind whispers through the willows with a voice not of this world. As the river swells and the landscape seems to breathe, they come to suspect that the wilderness itself is alive-and aware of them.