This episode is a narration of chapter 5, the finale of the classic horror story "The Willows" written by Algernon Blackwood. The unnamed protagonist and his companion only known as 'the Swede' have embarked on a canoeing adventure on the Danube, where they will be confronted by the supernatural, unknowable power of nature. Fear will be personified among the willows.

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