Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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"The Willows" is a novella by Algernon Blackwood, appearing in his 1907 anthology, The Listener and Other Stories.

Two friends on a canoe expedition down the Danube find themselves stranded on a small, desolate island surrounded by dense trees. As strange and unsettling phenomena begin to plague them, they sense an unseen presence, and come to suspect that they have stumbled into a place where the boundaries of reality are dangerously thin...

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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:02:06 - One
0:40:10 - Two
0:47:12 - Three
0:56:16 - Four
1:48:48 - Five
1:59:25 - Further Listening

Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
Music and production by Ian & Jennifer Gordon

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