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Thanks for your support and welcome to Part 1 of The Whisperer in Darkness.

Featuring guest Andrew Lehman, reader Matt Foyer, and the music of Troy Sterling Nice.

Right here at H.Podcraft.com. Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end.

To say that a mental shock was the cause of what I inferred, that last straw which sent me racing out of the lonely

aikley farmhouse and through the wild domed hills of Vermont and a commandeered

motor at night is to ignore the plainest facts of my final experience.

And notwithstanding the deep extent to which I shared the information and speculations of Henry

Aikley, the things I saw and heard and the admitted vividness of the impression produced on me by these things.

I cannot prove even now whether I was right or wrong in my hideous inference.

For after all, Aikley's disappearance establishes nothing.

People found nothing amiss in his house,

despite the bullet marks on the outside and inside. It was just as though he'd

walked out casually for a ramble in the hills and failed to return. There was not

even a sign that a guest had been there or that those horrible cylinders

and machines had been stored in the study. That he had mortally feared the crowded green hills

and endless treckle of Brooks among which he had been

born and reared.

It means nothing at all either.

For thousands are subject to just such morbid fears.

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