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guarinous 's review for:
The Willows
by Algernon Blackwood
The rare horror story that gets better with subsequent readings, as it jealously guards its secrets to increase both the character's and the reader's anxiety. By charging the environment and scenery with so much sinister mystery and the main characters with comparatively little, the story's tension is ratcheted up from the get go and does not let up. Blackwood's atmospheric depiction of humanity's remote powerlessness before nature's indifference remains to me the gold standard in horror.