CharactersHenry Wentworth Akeley
Henry Wentworth Akeley is the Vermont researcher whose letters form much of The Whisperer in Darkness. Living near Townshend, he gathers evidence of nonhuman activity and sends it to Albert Wilmarth. His apparent change from terrified resistance to enthusiastic cooperation initiates the farmhouse visit, but the story’s final objects make the identity of the welcoming speaker profoundly uncertain.
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