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The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Fiction

By Algernon Blackwood

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Fiction

By Algernon Blackwood

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"They first became properly visible, these huge figures, just within the tops of the bushes -- immense, bronze-colored, moving, and wholly independent of the swaying of the branches. I saw them plainly and noted, now I came to examine them more calmly, that they were very much larger than human, and indeed that something in their appearance proclaimed them to be not human at all. Certainly they were not merely the moving tracery of the branches against the moonlight. They shifted independently. They rose upwards in a continuous stream from earth to sky, vanishing utterly as soon as they reached the dark of the sky. They were interlaced one with another, making a great column, and I saw their limbs and huge bodies melting in and out of each other, forming this serpentine line that bent and swayed and twisted spirally with the contortions of the wind-tossed trees. They were nude, fluid shapes, passing up the bushes, within the leaves almost - rising up in a living column into the heavens. Their faces I never could see. Unceasingly they poured upwards, swaying in great bending curves, with a hue of dull bronze upon their skins. . . . For the longer I looked the more certain I became that these figures were real and living, though perhaps not according to the standards that the camera and the biologist would insist upon." "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
108
Release Date:
2003-02-04
Publication Date:
2002-06-01
Publisher:
Borgo Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1587156520
ISBN13:
9781587156526
Weight:
170 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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