One of the true classic novellas in the horror genre was Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo," first published in Blackwood's collection The Lost Valley and Other Stories (1910). According to the FictionMags Index, it has been reprinted at least 39 times since its original publication; due to the limited scope of the Index, it is safe to assume that it has been reprinted many more times.
The story has been filmed and adapted many times, and has been recorded and read many more times for radio, podcasts, and the like.
Here's a French adaptation of the story that strays pretty far afield from the original. It is by all accounts, an awful film. There are only two reviews of the flick on IMDb, and both give it only one star; one goes so far as to title the review "Huntinn of ze moouse." The movie stars no one you have heard of, but does add some eye candy not present in the original story with the addition of Carol Cocherell in her only screen credit.
Because I know that readers of this blog are staunch fellows (and gals) all, I present this turkey:
https://archive.org/details/Wendigo
But that's not all! Here's an AI generated version of the story that at least covers the basics of the novella, omitting much of the atmosphere and horror, in just four minutes, thirteen seconds!
https://archive.org/details/movies?tab=collection&query=the+wendigo
Blackwood (1869-1951) was one the premiere writers of horror and the supernatural stories in the twentieth century. Here's the Libravox recording of the full story, read by Michael Thomas Robinson. ennoy.
https://archive.org/details/willows_mtr_librivox
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