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Chronicle · Written 1930 → Published 1931

The Whisperer in Darkness

Weird Tales, Aug. 1931

The Whisperer in Darkness

After Vermont floods wash strange carcasses out of the hills, a folklorist begins corresponding with a reclusive farmer who claims to have recorded the buzzing, wasp-like voices of something in the woods. The correspondence turns stranger as the farmer's letters start to describe an offer he's been made — and then abruptly change tone.

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