The Whisperer in Darkness

Quite enjoyed reading this. The story is, like the Dunwich Horror, told from the perspective of a learned individual. Of how disbelief and fascination are woven together into a compelling narrative. I just love that flowery prose, even though it drove me to a dictionary quite a few times.

The way the story told conveys a sense of growing dread and paranoia that can infect the reader's imagination, thinking about just what's out there. You get these glimpses and then of strange far-fetched tales that just gets your mind racing about all the possibilities.

After reading three of Lovecraft's stories, I'm really getting why there's even a genre (Lovecraftian-horror) named after him.

Definitely, it's not one of my favorites. This tale is a typical pulp magazine sci-fi short story with some of the traditional sci-fi tropes from the 1930's, which makes it somehow different from other Lovecraftian classics such as The Call of Cthulhu, Mountain of Madness, etc... Lots of tech! Too much technology and not that cosmic terror feel...

It seems this one lacks from depicting these eldritch horrors as abstract entities, a pivotal mark of the Lovecraftian cosmic horror. But it's ok, it has everything else from the author and I must point out the buzzing and creepy voice... That was really creepy...