Reviews
Three slightly scared stars to Blackwood's The Wendigo.This was a good little story. It was well written (albeit, a little hard to follow as it uses old day language) and it had a good premise. This personally wasn't for me though.I enjoyed the descriptions and I enjoyed the writing - however, it was really annoying how when Simpson was alone, he was only referred to as "he" and "him". Within the space of a chapter, I forgot his name, and having to go back to remember who he was really disrupted the flow of the story. Half way through the story Simpson is found to be alone in the forest, and this bit really got to me. I was sitting in my room, reading this in the dark, and it was so well written, I had goosebumps. I kept glancing around my room, sure to find a Wendigo stood there, waiting to take me as it's next victim. After this? It gets pretty boring again. It's more of a weak mystery aspect after that, and it was really annoying to go from such good horror to just a weak mystery that I didn't really care about.And the sixty four million dollar question - what the hell did his feet look like?! I want to know and it bugs me that Blackwood didn't go into detail on this. This would have been pretty damn good nightmare fuel, I know it would be, but nope. Just "you don't need to worry about that". Like, come on, give me something to shiver in horror at. This was good, well written, and I liked the characters. The story itself was pretty weak. I wouldn't personally recommend this to anyone I know, but other people will definitely enjoy this one.