Hello, gentle listener. Can you believe it's Patreon exclusive episode time again already.

How exciting!

Tonight we return to the American Wilds for part two of our serialized presentation of

Alginon Blackwood's beloved classic, the Wendigo.

Last episode, we left off with Simpson and his trusty guide Defargo

in the dark, untamed woods on the southern shore of 50 island water,

on the first night of their hunt for moose in that wild

region. Despite Defargo's spooked reaction to a disturbing scent that assailed his nostrils as he sat by

their campfire, they had called it a night, and were now

cozily tucked up in their little tent, and drifting off into the waiting arms of sleep.

Let's just wind back the narrative a minute or two and pick it up from there.

Nocturnal transmissions is proud to present Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo

Part 2 Two men lay down without undressing upon their beds of soft balsam boughs, cunningly arranged.

Inside all was warm and cozy, but outside the world of crowding trees pressed close about them, marshalling their million

shadows and smothering the little tent that stood there like a wee white shell facing the ocean

of tremendous forest. Between the two lonely figures within, however, there pressed another shadow that was not

a shadow from the night.

It was the shadow cast by the strange fear, never wholly exercised, that had leaped suddenly

upon DeFargo in the middle of his singing.

And Simpson, as he lay there watching the darkness through the open flap of the tent,

ready to plunge into the fragrant abyss of sleep, knew first that unique and profound stillness of a primeval forest when no wind stirs,

and when the night has weight and substance that enters into the soul to bind a veil about it.

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