Akeley says he has agreed to undertake such a journey and points to a cylinder bearing his name. He also says that the beings can surgically extract a human brain and place it into a canister wherein it can live indefinitely and withstand the rigors of outer space travel and shows proof to Wilmarth. Akeley tells Wilmarth about the extraterrestrial race and the wonders they have revealed to him. Wilmarth arrives to find Akeley in a pitiful physical condition, immobilized in a chair in darkness.
He urges Wilmarth to pay him a visit and to bring along the letters and photographic evidence that he had sent him. Furthermore, they have taught him of marvels beyond all imagination. He writes that he has met with the extraterrestrial beings and has learned that they are peaceful. Although Akeley expresses more in his letters, he abruptly has a change of heart. Akeley and the agents exchange gunfire and many of Akeley's guard dogs are killed. The agents intercept Akeley's messages and harass his farmhouse nightly. The two exchange letters, including a record of the extraterrestrial race chanting with human agents, who worship several beings, including Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep, the latter of whom "shall put on the semblance of men, the waxen mask and the robe that hides". He affirms that he has proof that will convince Wilmarth that he must stop focusing on the race's existence. He receives a letter from one Henry Wentworth Akeley, a man who lives in an isolated farmhouse near Townshend, Vermont.
When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics, blaming old legends about monsters living in uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture too close to their territory. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. "The Whisperer in Darkness" is a story by H.
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