The Willows (version 2)

Written by Algernon Blackwood

Narrated by LibriVox Community

The Willows is one of Algernon Blackwood's best known creepy stories. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. He wrote in his treatise "Supernatural Horror in Literature", "Here art and restraint in narrative reach their very highest development, and an impression of lasting poignancy is produced without a single strained passage or a single false note." "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (1869–1951), was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist, and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, “His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer’s except Dunsany’s” and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) “may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century.”

Reviews for The Willows (version 2)

[Anne · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I was unable to listen to the narrator, his pauses and in opportune inflections ruined the story. Awful, will try to read it instead.

[Juliakasdorf · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fantastic story touching on a unique, subtle horror. Reader a trifle flat for the mysteries therein.