The Wendigo

The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood. In the wilderness north of Rat Portage in Northwestern Ontario, two Scotsmen - divinity student Simpson and his uncle, Dr. Cathcart, an author of a book on collective hallucination - are on a moose-hunting trip with guides Hank Davis and the wilderness-loving French "Canuck", Joseph D fago. While their Indian cook, Punk, stays to tend the main camp, the others split up into two hunting-parties; Dr. Cathcart goes with Hank, while D fago guides Simpson in a canoe down the river to explore the vast territory beyond. Simpson and D fago make camp, and it soon becomes clear that D fago senses - or at least thinks he senses - some strange and fearful odour on the wind. That night, Simpson wakes to find D fago cowering in terror from something outside the tent.