The Wendigo: Original and Unabridged

The Wendigo is a novella by Algernon Blackwood, first published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories.In the wilderness in Northwestern Ontario, two Scotsmen 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.Simpson and D fago make camp, and it soon becomes clear that D fago senses - or 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. Later D fago runs off into the night, forcing Simpson to go and look for him. He follows his footprints in the snow for many miles, realising that D fago's are not the only set of tracks.