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The Wendigo

By: Algernon Blackwood
Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
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Days from civilisation five men are about to experience something beyond the rational.

In the snow slaked wilds where the natives fear to tread, these men search for moose but find something more terrifying and supernatural. With a rush of wind and the smell of feral nature one of their number is whisked away, leaving them wondering: Who might be next?

©2014 Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot (P)2014 Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot Action & Adventure
Creepy Atmosphere • Intimate Writing • Pleasant Narration • Engaging Suspense • Immersive Adventure • Good Performance
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This was a fun and creepy short story. Well written and organized! Good for a little creep in the night if you have 2ish hours.

Fun and Creepy Short Story

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I would consider this story more suspenseful or thriller than horror. concentrating on character and atmosphere. not a bad piece, short and easily digestible.

atmospheric

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The writing is pretty good if one can get past the author’s 1910 racial views. The weakness of the horror aspect to me is that it seems to also be derived from those views (i.e. the inherent horror of “wild men” and wildness more broadly), and entirely forgoes some of the more compelling aspects of Wendigo stories in the process. To say more would be spoilers, but let’s just say that if you’re looking for a take on this monster that cuts true to its original mythology in a compelling way, this isn’t it. As a spooky story in the woods, it’s fine.

Misses the mark with its subject

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A good creepy tale. The narrator choice made no sense. An Australian for a north woods tale?

Creepy inspiration

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Reader was completely competent, but not a voicemaster. La la la la la le fifteen.

A wonderful story of th North Woods

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I recommend this audiobook. However, I have a small detraction: I prefer audiobooks where the reader gives each character distinctive vocal properties, and where the action can be felt in the intonation of the words, as though the reader were performing onstage. That is not exactly the case with this one. The reader's Australian accent works, but I would rather have heard the characters speak in a voice more appropriate to the North American wilderness setting. Nonetheless, as I listened , I became more involved in the story than in the production. I was able to feel the suspense, the mystery, and the terror that the author intended. I ended up feeling that I had been on the adventure.

Well-read, but not "performed."

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I was really irrationally listening to this. it's not that long and I can't finish it because the narrator is so poorly mismatched to the story.

narrator should be reading a children's book

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I think this is far better than the more acclaimed “the Willows” by Blackwood. To me it never came across effectively. Did I miss something? But Wendigo delivers. Mythology, alone in the not so empty woods, guns because something is out there. Well told now also.

Just perfect spooky awe myth tale

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It was simplistic , scary and enjoyable check it out its worth a listen .

great horror feel

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This book was written perfectly to set up one hell of an ending, but, to me, I felt it missed the mark. Maybe that was the author’s intention, to leave the reader on somewhat of a cliff hanger, but it would have been amazing to see what happened after the characters made the discovery and what they did with that information.

Great Build Up, But Ending Seems to be Missing Something

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