num_pages: 105
description: Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environmentriver sun windand 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.The Willows is one of Algernon Blackwood's best known short stories. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. The Willows is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.
language: English
title: The Willows
publisher: Wildside Press