H. P. Lovecraft

Name: The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3
Author: H. P. Lovecraft

The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3 (1931)

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“The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3”, published in 1931, is a work by H. P. Lovecraft. It explores elements such as Akeley, Brattleboro and Bellows Falls.

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H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3 (1931)

“ I hardly need say that I gave that shocking record many another playing, and that I made exhaustive attempts at analysis and comment in comparing notes with Akeley. It would be both useless and disturbing to repeat here all that we concluded; but I may hint that we agreed in believing we had secured a clue to the source of some of the most repulsive primordial customs in the cryptic elder religions of mankind. It seemed plain to us, also, that there were ancient and elaborate alliance; between the hidden outer creatures and certain members of the human race. ”

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H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3 (1931)

“ Akeley had given me a transcript of what he believed the spoken words to be, and I glanced through this again as I prepared the machine for action. The text was darkly mysterious rather than openly horrible, though a knowledge of its origin and manner of gathering gave it all the associative horror which any words could well possess. I will present it here in full as I remember it—and I am fairly confident that I know it correctly by heart, not only from reading the transcript, but from playing the record itself over and over again. It is not a thing which one might readily forget! ”

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H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3 (1931)

“ So the record was shipped from Brattleboro, whither Akeley drove in his Ford car along the lonely Vermont back roads. He confessed in an accompanying note that he was beginning to be afraid of those roads, and that he would not even go into Townshend for supplies now except in broad daylight. It did not pay, he repeated again and again, to know too much unless one were very remote from those silent and problematical hills. He would be going to California pretty soon to live with his son, though it was hard to leave a place where all one's memories and ancestral feelings centered. ”

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H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3 (1931)

“ He had given the name of Stanley Adams, and had had such a queerly thick droning voice, that it made the clerk abnormally dizzy and sleepy to listen to him. The clerk could not remember quite how the conversation had ended, but recalled starting into a fuller awakeness when the train began to move. The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company. ”

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H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3 (1931)

“ For some reason or other, Akeley was afraid to trust the thing to any ordinary or expected transportation route. His final idea was to take it across country to Bellows Falls and ship it on the Boston and Maine system through Keene and Winchendon and Fitchburg, even though this would necessitate his driving along somewhat lonelier and more forest-traversing hill roads than the main highway to Brattleboro. He said he had noticed a man around the express office at Brattleboro when he had sent the phonograph record, whose actions and expression had been far from reassuring. ”

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H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3 (1931)

“ Chapter 3 Toward the end of June the phonograph record came—shipped from Brattleboro, since Akeley was unwilling to trust conditions on the branch line north of there. He had begun to feel an increased sense of espionage, aggravated by the loss of some of our letters; and said much about the insidious deeds of certain men whom he considered tools and agents of the hidden beings. ”

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H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3 (1931)

“ He had not visited the telegraph office or received any message so far as could be learned, nor had any message which might justly be considered a notice of the black stone’s presence on No. 5508 come through the office for anyone. Naturally Akeley joined with me in conducting these inquiries, and even made a personal trip to Keene to question the people around the station ”

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H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness — Chapter 3 (1931)

“ And it has come to pass that the Lord of the Woods, being . . . seven and nine, down the onyx steps . . . (tri) butes to Him in the Gulf, Azathoth, He of Whom Thou has taught us marv (els) . . . on the wings of night out beyond space, out beyond th . . . to That whereof Yuggoth is the youngest child, rolling alone in black aether at the rim . . .
(Buzzing Voice)
. . . go out among men and find the ways thereof, that He in the Gulf may know. ”

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