And the Yeah, Hello everyone and welcome to 1001 classic short stories and tales.

Today's story is from Algernon Blackwood who gave us the When to Go, one of our most listened

to short stories in our five year history.

English born in 1869,

Algernon Blackwood, a journalist and broadcast narrator,

was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre.

He liked to write about the northern lakes and the wilderness travelers that find themselves hiking and canoeing through them.

He got many of his ideas from taking a remote

hunting drip in Canada and Skeleton Lake an episode in camp is a prime example.

Time to settle back and grab that coffee

while we head for the northern woods.

I can almost hear the loons calling.

You know, the Indians say that every time a soul passes, balloon calls.

And now Skeleton Lake by Aldrinon Blackwood.

The utter loneliness of our Moose camp on Skeleton Lake had impressed us from the beginning.

In the Quebec backwards, five days by trail and canoe from civilization.

And perhaps the singular name contributed a little to the sensation of eeriness that made itself felt in the camp circle

when once the sun was down and the late October mist began rising from the lake and

winding their way in among the tree trunks. Four, in these regions, all names of lakes and hills and islands have their origin in some actual event,

taking either the name of a chief participant, such as Smith's Ridge,

or claiming a place in the map by perpetuating some special feature of the journey or the scenery such as Long Island, Deep Rapids, or

rainy lake. All names thus have their meaning and are usually pretty recently acquired

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