The Willows
By Algernon Blackwood
Cover: The Isle of the Dead, third version (1883), oil on panel by Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1901)
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"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.
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