A Haunted Island - Algernon Blackwood

One of Blackwood's supernatural tales, not...quite a ghost story. But a haunting for sure, set, as his best stories are, in the wilderness.
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[@Arwcwb]

Algernon Blackwood always delivers.

[@mrs.cracker4622]

Algernon Blackwood wrote some wonderful stories. Many thanks for sharing this one!

[@WindyNightStories]

Thank you for listening/watching!

[@ufosrus]

The description of the protagonist's terror was very much felt by this listener. 😵

[@leonaheraty3760]

Thank you! 😊

[@gohboy56]

I am a new subscriber and already appreciate this channel. I like all the Blackwood tales I have ever read...he was great at building up an atmosphere and his way with words..imagine " silence as before the birth of sound."
The narrator has a great , well modulated voice and am looking forward to hear more of him. Thanks for this Blackwood gem 💎 💖

[@WindyNightStories]

Thanks for subscribing!

[@oldones59]

For a different and unsettling tale, read Blackwood's The Man Whom the Trees Loved. Thanks for the post.

[@WindyNightStories]

I really like Blackwood's stories.

[@Bambisgf77]

I love these older stories! Have not finished this one yet but already hit the like button ☺️

[@nilofarbawa2377]

Awesome 👏🏼 thank you!

[@ginabeena6757]

Excellent! Thank you!

[@WindyNightStories]

Thank you for listening!

[@kennykool100]

This is great. Thanks so much!!

[@joeharoutunian1805]

Thanks for this. I think that you could slow it down a bit.

[@DonHavjuan]

Slow down speedy Gonzales. And try adding even a tiny bit of characterisation and interpreting of what you're reading instead of sounding like a text to speak engine just racing through the content with no understanding of what's being read.

[@joeharoutunian1805]

Yes, too quick, makes it sound read as opposed to performed

[@blixten2928]

Blackwood is really great, but this is not a story that ages particularly well. "The Indian" as source of terror is a bit passé.

[@WindyNightStories]

Yes, these old ghost stories often have things that are a little cringworthy about them, though I think Blackwood is not as bad as some.

[@blixten2928]

@@WindyNightStories Absolutely. And one tolerates a good deal in a really good writer, like Blackwood and - if one's tastes run that way - Lovecraft (who is a real racist/eugenicist). I wonder what future readers will cringe at in our current fiction - our depiction of animals?

[@mattropolis99]

Go read historical writings of early settling during his time in the late 1800’s - interactions between natives and settlers were still violent on more occasions than we like to admit. There were no cops or anyone to call - it was still quite wild and people could do pretty much what they would like.