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Tagged: Vermont

Characters

Henry 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.

6 min read · 1,212 words

Entities & creatures

Mi-Go

The Mi-Go are the winged, fungus-like extraterrestrials associated with the Vermont hills and the distant outpost Yuggoth. Their contact with Henry Akeley and Albert Wilmarth combines material extraction, concealed human agents, ritual communication and a technology that can transport a living brain beyond its body.

8 min read · 1,610 words

Literature

The Whisperer in Darkness

A folklorist’s correspondence with an isolated Vermont resident becomes an invitation to abandon the human body and travel among the stars. The Whisperer in Darkness builds its mystery through letters, photographs and recorded voices, then makes the apparent reliability of every medium part of the trap.

12 min read · 2,449 words