Algernon Blackwood

The Wendigo Illustrated Algernon Blackwood

The Wendigo is a novella by Algernon Blackwood, first published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories (Eveleigh Nash, 1910).the Wendigo is said to be an elemental creature of the wilderness - a kind of spiritual personification of Nature like Pan - which is impossibly fast and massive. The Wendigo is said to call to woodsmen, who are seduced by its Siren voice and forced to run after it.