The Whisperer in the Darkness
When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics, blaming old legends about monsters living in uninhabited hills...
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When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics, blaming old legends about monsters living in uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture too close to their territory.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781609772710 (1609772717)
Publish date: 03-02-2014
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
Pages no: 75
Edition language: English
I either chose the worst or best circumstances to read this in preparation for a talk at my library by a Lovecraft scholar about H.P. Lovecraft's 1927 and 1928 visits to Windham county in southern VT after a particularly devastating flood. "The Whisperer in the Darkness" is the result of those visit...
First sentence: "Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end."Last sentence: "For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and the hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley."Of all the horror stories by...
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