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The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood
Narrated by: Nick Sampson
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Perhaps Blackwood's most celebrated story, The Willows was influenced heavily by his own trips down the Danube River. It tells the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night, a place where another dimension impinges on our own. H.P. Lovecraft considered this the finest supernatural tale in English literature.(P)2007 Listen and Live Audio, Inc. Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fiction Horror Scary Short Story
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Exceptional Dread-building • Intense Suspense • Excellent Performance • Intelligent Writing • Top-tier Storytelling

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Genuinely unnerving. The setting. The era. Top tier storytelling that will stay with you.

I love the feel of this story

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Very effective ratcheting of tension. Lovecraftian before the adjective existed, but less densely polysyllabic. Classic.

Spooky

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I enjoyed the atmosphere.
nothing earth shattering but genuinely creepy experience.
I wanted a bit more. it ended abruptly.

short and creepy

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There is four chapters in the book, but only two in the audiobook, some of the words don't match like gramophone changed to phonograph, and for the last half hour or so the narrators voice sounded muffled.

Chapters don't match

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that was a doozy of an ending! bone chilling despite its short length! absolutely and utterly terrifying in a way that cannot be understated. laughing like the main characters at just how unbelievably horrific the story was

holy f***

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