This is the first component writer Nathan Carson and artist Sam Ford address in their adaptation, serialized in two halves by indie publisher Floating World Comics and soon to be collected in one volume. Algernon Blackwood’s highly regarded novella The Willows is a prime example of this, with a nameless narrator and a companion identified only by his nationality (“the Swede”). Protagonists are typically little more than an excuse for first-person narration, rather than complex participants-an extension, perhaps, of the genre’s heritage in stories told around the fire. Contemporary readers tackling early 20 th-century horror and weird fiction for the first time are often struck by the lack of character.
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