H P Lovecraft wrote the short story quotThe Whisperer in Darknessquot It was written between February and September 1930 and first appeared in Weird Tales in August 1931 It is a horrorscience fiction hybrid similar to quotThe Color Out of Spacequot 1927 Despite numerous references to the Cthulhu Mythos the supernatural does not play many roles in the plot and therefore reflects Lovecrafts transformation to a scifi writer MiGo an alien race is also introduced in the story Much to the chagrin of Albert N Wilmarth local academic bizzare things are sighted floating in rivers in the area of rural Vermont after a flood which consequently resurfaces the debates regarding an old myth of hilldwelling monsters that abducts humans However Wilmarth is drawn into a surprising correspondence that leads to a troubling discovery when he begins receiving letters from an individual named Henry Wentworth Akeley which talks about the alleged presence close to his farmhouse of an extraterrestrial race worshipping ancient cosmic deities quotThe Haunter of the Darkquot quotAt the Mountains of Madnessquot quotThe Burial Placequot and quotThe Lurker at the Thresholdquot are among the volumes that contain Lovecrafts supernatural tales
