The Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood

Category: Horror

Narrator: Ian Gordon

Tags: Horror, Thriller, Short Story, Adults

Originally an 9-part series featured on Rue Morgue Magazine., A group of men, two Scotsmen divinity student Simpson and his uncle, Dr. Cathcart, an author of a book on collective hallucination are on a moose-hunting trip with guides Hank Davis and the French Canuck, Joseph Dfago, deep in the Northern wilderness are visited by a terrifying mythical creature from Native American Algonquian-speaking, most notably the Ojibwe and Saulteaux, the Cree, the Naskapi, and the Innu native peoples. While their Indian cook, Punk, stays to tend the main camp, the others split up into two hunting-parties; Dr. Cathcart goes with Hank, while Dfago guides Simpson in a canoe down the river to explore the vast territory beyond. The Wendigo is seen as the embodiment of gluttony, greed, and excess: never satisfied after killing and consuming a person, they are constantly searching for new victims. They were strongly associated with the winter, the north, and coldness, as well as with famine and starvation