The Wendigo = Wendigo

This is a collection about how the forest looks at a person — and how a person cannot withstand that gaze. In "The Wendigo," a hunt in the Canadian wilderness turns into a nightmarish experience of encountering an ancient spirit of the forest, which shatters the body and consciousness of one of the characters, along with the faith of the others in the familiar, rational world. In "The Willows," two travelers find themselves in a strange, almost unreal landscape where nature comes alive, and the whisper of the wind turns into a harbinger of something cosmically hostile. In "The Man Whom the Trees Loved," a quiet love for nature gradually transforms into obsession and a slow dissolution of the human 'self' into the will of the forest. "The Wendigo" is three variations on one unsettling theme: what happens to a person when civilization recedes, and true savagery — ancient, impersonal, indifferent — finally responds to their gaze. Read it in the original, without adaptation and cuts!