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Ghost or Monster: duppy (Caribbean), wendigo (Canada), taniwha (New Zealand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speaking In Tongues | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...keenest distaste for actual life is perhaps his most carefully composed one, The Lost Valley. Twin brothers, who have lived only for each other for 35 years, find themselves in love with the same woman, resolve on suicide as the only way out. One of his eeriest tales, The Wendigo (a notable omission in this collection), creates an atmosphere in which it Is difficult not to believe in a grisly, devouring spirit that haunts the frozen wilderness of the Canadian north woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elsewhere & Otherwise | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...left. He slept in public parks, took up with raffish friends, read occult works, underwent what he later described as "mystical, psychic" experiences. For a time he tried gold mining in the Canadian backwoods, and discovered at least the atmosphere later used in Running Wolf and The Wendigo. In Manhattan he made eau-de-cologne, reported for the Sun and the Times, learned something of the "accumulated horror" of the lower East Side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoppety & Hideous | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Since the Witch of Endor, rare are the artists who have raised a proper ghost. Bram Stoker raised one (Dracula]; Algernon Blackwood one (The Wendigo); Walter de la Mare, a few (The Return, On the Edge, TIME, Feb. 23): M. R. James several. Ghost-story addicts will welcome this collection of his four spooky books (Ghost Stories of An Antiquary, Afore Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, A Warning to the Curious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spooks | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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