The Wendigo - 8

by Algernon Blackwood in English Moral Stories

VIII Then at length the darkness, having thus laboriously conceived, brought forth—a figure. It drew forward into the zone of uncertain light where fire and shadows mingled, not ten feet away; then halted, staring at them fixedly. The same ...Read Moreit started forward again with the spasmodic motion as of a thing moved by wires, and coming up closer to them, full into the glare of the fire, they perceived then that—it was a man; and apparently that this man was—Défago. Something like a skin of horror almost perceptibly drew down in that moment over every face, and three pairs Read Less