The Whisperer in Darkness Page #6

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There's a legend, in the Davenport book.

The Pennacook said the Outer Ones

will take sacred stones to make a

kind of a doorwayto their world.

Maybe that's what he meant by a "tunnel"...

The black stone!

What?

The black stone that George brought to you.

I found it in a ring of stones.

It must be part of the door,

that's why they were so keen to get it back.

Henry, George never brought me the stone.

How can that be? I saw

him onto the train myself.

I put it in his hands.

Yes, but he never...

My god, Henry, that was weeks ago.

How long have you been like this?

What?

George never met me in Boston.

He never got off the train.

Earlier tonight you said...

that thing said that George...

My god.

It was a lie.

Where is my son?

Henry, they wanted to get the

stone back. They must have...

No!

I'm so sorry.

I sent him right into their hands!

What have I done?

Henry, listen to me. I overheard them,

they're going to try to open the doorway tonight.

I have to go.

Wilmarth! You can't leave me like this!

Put an end to it. I beg you.

Henry, I don't... I can't...

They took my son.

They took my body.

In the name of all that's holy,

don't leave me like this.

Thank you, Albert.

I can't live like this.

Do it!

Please!

Henry, I'm so sorry.

You should have done it.

You'd have been doing him a favour.

I couldn't.

Pity.

Please put the gun down.

Look, I don't know anything.

I'm not trying to stop them.

You're too late.

Too late?

To stop them, even if there was a way.

Akeley said you know what they're

trying to do, about the tunnel...

I said you're too late!

Can't stop 'em now.

No, their tunnel, it's a spirit door...

a kind of passage...

I know. I know all about it.

I'm supposed to be there with them now to open it.

I couldn't go.

It's too late for all of us.

No, Akeley said if we...

They played Akeley perfectly.

He believed what they told him.

They manipulated him. Fear,

greed, they know how to work us over.

No, the Davenport book,

it says the same things that Akeley...

Of course it does. Those things wrote the book!

No, Davenport just collected folklore.

Legends from settlers and Indians.

Who do you think told the Indians the legends?

They did.

But this thing they're making,

it leads back to where they come from.

No, no, no. It's not a door to lead there.

Nobody's going to use it to go there.

It's a door that leads here!

Here?

Most of them can't fly through space.

They make machinery to help

some others make the trip.

Most of'em can never come here.

But once they have the tunnel,

their door, they'll come.

They're coming now. Coming here.

Straight to Round Mountain.

More of them?

How many?

How many stars are there?

Oh my God!

So this tunnel,

is it in their cave?

No, no. It's on the mountain top.

They got a ritual, a religious thing,

they have to do in front of the

standing stones up on Round Mountain.

In the cave there's a staircase sort

of a thing that leads to the mountain top.

What will they do?

Noyes has to lead the Mi-Go in a ritual.

I know it has to do with the series

of stones they brought from Yuggoth.

He's probably already started.

We have to stop him.

We can't! Don't you get it?

There are things that cannot be stopped.

You can't stop him. You can't stop them.

Mankind is done. They're what's next.

No, no you're wrong.

Wrong? Wrong? Have you seen one? Up close?

They can put thoughts right into your head.

We're no match for them.

We can't just surrender.

They won't let us surrender; we've already lost.

No, no there's got to be something we can do.

End it now. End it now.

Don't give them the pleasure of destroying us.

No, no, the book... there's a

passage in there about the spirit-door.

It's in Davenport's notes...

That book? Lies!

No, the Indians told

Davenport that only a high priest

of our world can open the spirit-door to their world.

It has to be a shaman who goes

through first or it wont work.

There's something about who goes through first...

Here, let me show you...

Leave it alone!

Masterson, it's right there.

I think there is something we can do...

Don't open it. It's a trick, it's full of their lies.

The Mi-Go deceive us at every turn.

Now hold on,

let me just show you...

No!

It's all their lies!

It's just what they want us to think.

Don't you see?

There's nothing we can do.

No, there is a way,

it's in the book!

Here. Just let me show you.

No!

Are you out of your mind?

We can't stop them.

They're coming.

We're doomed.

We're all doomed.

Only one thing left...

No!

We have to go.

Somewhere safe.

The barn.

The barn... your barn?

Sit down.

It's Hannah, isn't it?

You'll be all right Hannah.

Such a pretty name.

My name is Albert.

It's not very pretty, is it?

You know, I... had a little

girl of my own once. Years ago.

She was just a bit younger than you are now.

Right after the war...

a lot of people got terribly sick.

My Sonia got the sickness.

My wife, too. Both my girls.

The doctors couldn't help her-

so many people had the influenza...

You know what I did when my

little girl didn't feel well?

I sang her a song and that made her feel better.

Would you like me to sing that song for you?

No.

That's all right, Hannah.

That's all right.

Now listen to me, Hannah.

There's something I have to do.

These things...

They've made a kind of a door

to where they come from and

they're going to try to open it.

Someone special, Mr. Noyes, I think,

is going to do that. If I can stop him...

No more of the things will come. It will all be over.

But I have to go, right now.

I promise you, no matter what,

I will come back for you.

Hannah, I have to go. To keep us safe.

If I don't stop them...

They'll come.

They will.

I have to go to Round Mountain.

There's a cave there.

I can take you.

No. No, it's too dangerous.

I have to go alone.

I can help you.

You've already helped me, Hannah.

If you follow the main path,

you'll get to where there's two stumps.

If you go to the left, the path goes uphill,

right up by their cave.

There's a big boulder in front of it.

So, up the path to the two stumps,

to the left, to the boulder.

You'll need this.

I need to leave now.

I know.

You wait here for me.

This place is safe.

My daddy painted hexes over the door.

They can't come in here.

Good girl, Hannah.

You stay here. I'll be

back for you, no matter what.

Thank you, Hannah, for helping me.

Goodbye, Albert.

...for such a passage

provideth the Black Goat of the Woods.

...and lo the seventh and final,

carried from lightless Yuggoth

through the black seas of infinity,

for it is the stone that carries the name

of its messenger Who Is Not to Be Named.

And in the name of the Black Goat

of the Wood with a Thousand Young...

For great has the journey to black

Yuggoth been, now it be conjoined,

and thither shall mankind go to share in the

nameless and unspoken rites of Shub-Niggurath.

Thus in the name of the

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