Storyteller Robert Lloyd Parry returns to the Engine Room at Cambridge Museum of Cambridge.

"Untrodden by man, the island lay beneath the moon, on the frontier of an alien world, a world tenanted by willows only, and the souls of willows. And we, in our rashness, had dared to invade it..."

Revered by H P Lovecraft as the best supernatural tale in the English language, 'The Willows' (1907) details the unsettling experiences of two travellers over two nights on an island in the Danube. Rich in atmosphere and hovering dread, it is Algernon Blackwood's masterpiece.

This is a rehearsed reading of a newly abridged version of the story.

Not suitable for children under the age of 12 years