Algernon Blackwood has a special place in the annals of the strange Northerns. He wrote “The Wendigo”, one of his two most famous stories (The other is “The Willows”). He had two others in his first collection, “A Haunted Island” and “Skeleton Lake” but he wasn’t quite done with the Canadian wilds yet. In The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories (1921) with Wilfred Wilson, he gave us “First Hate”. (This book was dedicated thus: “To the Memory of Our Camp-Fires in the Wilderness”.)
The story begins with that old chestnut of a tale told in a London club. The narrator:
The speaker was Ericssen, their host, a great hunter before the Lord, generally uncommunicative but a good listener, leaving the talk to others. For this latter reason, as well as for a certain note of challenge in his voice, his abrupt statement gained attention.
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