{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68a38e07457a24bb950853fc/6adf943fb50147298bc13434?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Willows - Part One by Algernon Blackwood — Something Beyond the River Is Watching","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68a38e07457a24bb950853fc/1793221864246-96cd9274-c66f-4dd5-a033-bc74e7849c5a.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Below Vienna, the Danube floods out into a wilderness of sandbars and willow scrub that the maps mark only as marshes. Two old friends, an Englishman and a Swede, beach their canoe on a small island to wait out a gale. The wind won’t drop. The willows won’t keep still. By morning, one of them has stopped making jokes.</p><p>Two men paddle through the darkest stretch of the Danube.</p><p><br></p><p>H. P. Lovecraft ranked Algernon Blackwood’s 1907 novella above every other supernatural tale in English.</p><p><br></p><p>For more short fiction podcasts, please visit <a href=\"shortstoryverses.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">shortstoryverses.com</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>Please follow and if you enjoyed the story leave a five star review at Apple Podcasts or rating at Spotify.</p>","author_name":"Don McDonald"}