Wendigo

Goodwin, Vincent

ISBN 10 : 1624020186 ISBN 13 : 9781624020186

Editeur : Graphic Planet, 2014

Synopsis

A hunting trip in the Canadian wilderness takes a bad turn when one of the hunting party disappears. Young Simpson tracks the missing hunter to find his tracks mysteriously change. They now look like the supernatural being of native lore--the Wendigo! The hunters find Défago but it may be too late for him. This horrifying tale is now a striking graphic novel adaptation. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century". His two best known stories are probably "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". He would also often write stories for newspapers at short notice, with the result that he was unsure exactly how many short stories he had written and there is no sure total. Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Good examples are the novels The Centaur, which climaxes with a traveller's sight of a herd of the mythical creatures; and Julius LeVallon and its sequel The Bright Messenger, which deal with reincarnation and the possibility of a new, mystical evolution of human consciousness. In correspondence with Peter Penzoldt, Blackwood wrote. My fundamental interest, I suppose, is signs and proofs of other powers that lie hidden in us all; the extension, in other words, of human faculty. So many of my stories, therefore, deal with extension of consciousness; speculative and imaginative treatment of possibilities outside our normal range of consciousness. ... Also, all that happens in our universe is natural; under Law; but an extension of our so limited normal consciousness can reveal new, extra-ordinary powers etc., and the word "supernatural" seems the best word for treating these in fiction. I believe it possible for our consciousness to change and grow, and that with this change we may become aware of a new universe. A "change" in consciousness, in its type, I mean, is something more than a mere extension of what we already possess and know

Présentation de l'éditeur

Popularizes an evil creature of legend from the Algonquian people of Native American Indians. The wendigo is a cannibalistic spirit that can either possess humans or is the creature in which humans can transform. Often described as extremely gaunt, skeletal gray in color and smelling of decaying flesh; the wendigo is associated with freezing winters, extreme famine but also gluttony.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graphic Planet
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1624020186
• ISBN 13: 9781624020186
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Illustrateur: Espinosa Rod
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible