“The Valley of the Beasts” is our last Algernon Blackwood Canadian story. It appeared in The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories (1921). As James Goho writes in “The Haunted Wood: The Canadian Stories of Algernon Blackwood”: The Canadian wilderness was a powerful force in the life of Algernon Blackwood.” (Journeys Into Darkness, 2014). “The Valley of the Beasts” gets this idea across as well as the more famous “The Wendigo”.
The story focuses on an English hunter named Grimwood. The dour man is hunting with another white man but the party splits so they can cover more ground. Grimwood goes with Tooshalli, his native guide. They have no luck until Grimwood comes upon the largest moose tracks he has ever seen. He gets a shot at the giant bull but only wounds it. The two men track the injured animal.
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