“THE WILLOWS” BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD #WeirdDarkness
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Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 124 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: Algernon Blackwood‚Äôs novella, ‚ÄúThe Willows‚Äù, was originally published as part of Blackwood‚Äôs 1907 collection¬Ý‚ÄúThe Listener and Other Stories‚Äù. It is one of his best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. In fact, horror author¬ÝH.P. Lovecraft¬Ýconsidered ‚ÄúThe Willows‚Äù to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature.
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| 0:55.0 | I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 0:58.0 | Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and Bizarrely and Bizarre Crime, Conspiracy, Mysterious, Macabre, |
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| 1:13.6 | Coming up in this episode, it's a fictional horror story from Algernon Blackwood called The Willows. |
| 1:20.3 | This novella was originally published as part of Blackwoods 1907 collection, The Listener, and Other Stories. |
| 1:27.0 | It's one of his best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. |
| 1:32.0 | In fact, horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered the Willows to be the finest |
| 1:37.8 | supernatural tale in English literature. If you're new here, welcome to the show. While you're listening, be sure to check |
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| 1:56.0 | thoughts. |
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| 2:01.6 | Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into the weird darkness. Weird Darkness. |
| 2:21.6 | Part 1. |
| 2:25.0 | After leaving Vienna and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular |
| 2:31.4 | loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides |
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