![]() ![]() And there are more of them due on earth any minute. That green sticky stuff is its blood or juice. It was a great crab with a lot of pyramided fleshy rings or knots of thick, ropy stuff covered with feelers where a man’s head would be. It was surely made of matter-but what kind of matter? The shape can’t be described. What can the thing have been made of? I saw it and felt it, and they all leave footprints. I tried to photograph it for you, but when I developed the film there wasn’t anything visible except the woodshed. You know, all those things in the rivers were seen only on the first morning after the flood. I tried to save it in the woodshed to convince people of the whole thing, but it all evaporated in a few hours. One of the dogs had it, and I found it near the kennel this morning. ![]() God, man, but it’s awful! It was dead, of course. It is this-I have seen and touched one of the things, or part of one of the things. Brace up to read this, for it will give you a shock. It's not obvious at first, but is later confirmed to be the blood of a dead Mi-Go.Īkeley: But I haven’t told you the worst, Wilmarth. Alien Blood: After Akeley repels a night attack on his house by a combined force of aliens and human collaborators, he finds pools of blood and other pools of "a green sticky stuff that had the worst odour I have ever smelled".Action Survivor: Wilmarth is a sheltered academic, but according to other stories set in the Cthulhu Mythos survives to old age.In 2020 the HPLHS returned to the story with yet another audio drama version for their long-running Dark Adventure Radio Theatre series. Simpson's earlier radio drama Fugue State was also heavily influenced by the novella. In 2019 the story was also adapted (far more loosely) for radio as part of Julian Simpson's " Pleasant Green Universe". In 2011 a film version was distributed by the H. The story introduces an extraterrestrial race of fungoid creatures usually referred to by fans as the Mi-Go (which in the story is just one creature from Earth mythology they're said to have inspired) or the Fungi from Yuggoth. These culminate in a desperate letter announcing that he's probably doomed - followed by a much more cheerful one claiming that the aliens aren't so bad after all, and inviting Wilmarth to come and see for himself.Īlthough it makes numerous references to the Cthulhu Mythos, the story is not a central part of the mythos, but reflects a shift in Lovecraft's writing at this time towards Science Fiction. ![]() Akeley's letters, as well as relating his discoveries, recount the increasing danger he believes himself to be in as the aliens and their human allies seek to recover and destroy the evidence he's gathered. ![]() Lovecraft, first published in Weird Tales in August 1931.Īlbert Wilmarth, a scholar of literature and folklore at Miskatonic University in Massachusetts, enters into a correspondence with Henry Akeley, who claims to have found proof that the mysterious and monstrous creatures spoken of in the folklore of his native Vermont are real, and are aliens from another world who have been secretly active on Earth for centuries. Later on I received from him certain material proofs which placed the matter on a somewhat different and bewilderingly bizarre basis."The Whisperer in Darkness" is a novella by H. I could see that there was a great deal to the man, and knew that what he reported must surely come from strange circumstance deserving investigation, however little it might have to do with the fantastic causes he assigned. Of course I began by considering him mistaken, but gave him credit for being intelligently mistaken and at no time did I emulate some of his friends in attributing his ideas, and his fear of the lonely green hills, to insanity. He had no personal preferences to advance, and was always guided by what he took to be solid evidence. For one thing, he was really close to the actual phenomena-visible and tangible-that he speculated so grotesquely about and for another thing, he was amazingly willing to leave his conclusions in a tenative state like a true man of science. ![]()
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