The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

Narrated by: Nick Sampson

Perhaps Blackwood's most celebrated story, The Willows was influenced heavily by his own trips down the Danube River. It tells the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night, a place where another dimension impinges on our own. H.P. Lovecraft considered this the finest supernatural tale in English literature.(P)2007 Listen and Live Audio, Inc.

I love the feel of this story

Genuinely unnerving. The setting. The era. Top tier storytelling that will stay with you.

Spooky

Very effective ratcheting of tension. Lovecraftian before the adjective existed, but less densely polysyllabic. Classic.

short and creepy

I enjoyed the atmosphere.
nothing earth shattering but genuinely creepy experience.
I wanted a bit more. it ended abruptly.

Chapters don't match

There is four chapters in the book, but only two in the audiobook, some of the words don't match like gramophone changed to phonograph, and for the last half hour or so the narrators voice sounded muffled.

holy f***

that was a doozy of an ending! bone chilling despite its short length! absolutely and utterly terrifying in a way that cannot be understated. laughing like the main characters at just how unbelievably horrific the story was