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It concerns a group on a moose hunting expedition in the Canadian wilderness. Howard.Īlong with “The Willows”, “The Wendigo” is one of Blackwood’s best known tales. Blackwood was a major influence on many writers of the weird tale in the early years of the 20th Century, including H. British author Algernon Blackwood was born on this date, March 14, in 1869.

The willows and the wendigo