The Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood Audiobook

Written by Algernon Blackwood
Read by Ian Gordon
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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 Défago, 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 Défago 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.

Algernon Henry Blackwood, published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories in 1910. Blackwood had a varied career, working as a dairy farmer in Canada, where he also operated a hotel for six months, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, bartender, model, journalist for the New York Times, private secretary, businessman, and violin teacher.