The Willows

'A masterpiece' Robert Macfarlane

They moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible.

Two friends are on a canoe trip down the Danube River, navigating the tempestuous currents of the water, sun, wind and willows. Marooned on an island, they see a mysterious figure, and encounter a corpse: and become haunted by otherworldly forces emerging from within the darkness of the forest - shadows, shapes, sounds . . .