Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows'

A review for Halloween

I often laugh at my fifteen-year-old male cat who will dart back into the house after he’s been out for only a few minutes. My wife says wolves must be after him. Yet last night after a cloudy Fall day of rain and falling temperatures, I sat in my favorite chair reading Algernon Blackwood’s novella, “The Willows,” and finally understood what a thirteen-…