Considered one of most
influential American authors, Howard Philip Lovecraft wrote some of the best
fantasy and horror fiction of the twentieth century. The Whisperer in Darkness, a short story written in 1930 and
originally published in Weird Tales a
year later, introduces some of Lovecraft’s later common themes and is still
powerfully unsettling today.
When local newspapers report
strange things seen floating in rivers during an historic Vermont flood, folklorist
and university instructor Albert Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy
about the significance of the sightings. Though he initially sides with the
skeptics—believing the strange bodies are simply people or farm animals that
have been battered by the storm and interpreted through the lens of “half-remembered
folklore” of the backwoods hill people—a local Vermont academic named Henry
Akeley writes to him and offers proof of these ancient, alien beings’ existence.
What follows is a disturbing and terrifying correspondence that leads Wilmarth
ever deeper into the mystery.
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