The Whisperer in Darkness

Something is moving through the remote Vermont hills, and the truth about it reaches far beyond Earth.Folklore professor Albert N. Wilmarth is skeptical when strange bodies are reportedly discovered after devastating floods in rural Vermont. Then he begins corresponding with Henry Akeley, an isolated farmer who insists that the old mountain legends are real. Photographs, recordings, and increasingly desperate letters provide evidence of unnatural beings operating in the wilderness-and suggest that Akeley himself is being watched.When Akeley's frightened correspondence suddenly changes and he invites Wilmarth to visit, curiosity proves stronger than caution. The journey into the Vermont mountains leads Wilmarth toward a horrifying confrontation with alien intelligence, forbidden knowledge, and technology capable of carrying the human mind across unimaginable distances. The deeper he investigates, the less certain he becomes that humanity understands its own world.Part of the Cthulhu Mythos, The Whisperer in Darkness connects the cosmic terror of The Call of Cthulhu and The Dunwich Horror with the alien science and vast universe explored in At the Mountains of Madness. Combining rural isolation, mounting paranoia, extraterrestrial horror, and Lovecraft's vision of humanity as a tiny presence in an incomprehensibly ancient cosmos, it remains one of the central works of Lovecraftian horror.