Halloween night is the perfect time to read a chilling tale of supernatural horror. Here’s one of my favorites: “The Willows,” a story written by Algernon Blackwood and published in 1907. H.P. Lovecraft wrote of it: “Here art and restraint in narrative reach their very highest development, and an impression of lasting poignancy is produced without a single strained passage or even a single false note.”

About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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