A classic horror story.that begins with a "Canadian canoe" trip down the Danube. The float trip lands two adventurers on an island in the stream, amid sharp shale, rapids, and winds. Disastrous erosion and grave danger soon engulf the men.The young campers survive a murderous attempt to scuttle their canoe and then hide from the perpetrators on a fast-disintegrating island. The campers hear voices over the willows and try to hide from those seeking to obliterate them. It soon become apparent the Outsiders are searching for human sacrifice. It goes from bad to much worse, until one of the Old Ones finds the menaced campers and rushes forward to seize them and destroy them both.<br/>This weird tale from a recognized master of the horror genre, best known for his ghost stories, was an inspiration for numerous incredibly inventive writers of creation of imaginary Mythos, and particularly the ersatz mythology of Ancient Ones residing in a parallel universe. Such created myths focus largely on a group of outsider or alien gods with awesome supernatural powers, whose world lies just beyond ours. Their terrible realm is usually chanced upon by accident, such as by a rift in the time-space continuum. Theirs is a world of mind-shattering, inconceivable horror where immense creatures lumber or hurry heedlessly about doing incomprehensible, loathsome deeds, often threatening to enslave mankind or destroy individuals or entire worlds whose occupants trespass upon their territories.<br/>In this tale, as in most of such imagined mythos stories, the poor humans stand little chance at survival or sometimes even maintaining their sanity after encountering these ancient, destructive "gods."
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