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"The Whisperer in the Dark" is a story by American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft, which belongs to the "Cthulhu Mythos" cycle. Like the story "Colour from Other Worlds", it combines elements of horror and science fiction."

The story first mentions the Mi-Go, a race of intelligent alien mushrooms.

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, a literature professor at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts. After local newspapers report that many locals have seen the bodies of strange creatures in the rivers following an unprecedented flood in Vermont, Wilmarth finds himself embroiled in a debate over the truth and significance of these accounts. Albert himself is extremely sceptical about these stories and believes that it's all down to old local legends about monsters that allegedly live somewhere in the mountains and kidnap people who dare to approach their territory.

Soon after, Albert receives a letter from Henry Wentworth Ackley, a lonely scientist who lives on a farm near the town of Townshend, Vermont. In this letter, Ackley claims to have evidence that can finally dispel all of Wilmarth's doubts about the reality of the creatures' existence. A lively correspondence begins between Ackley and Wilmarth, in which the scientists exchange information and stories about the extraterrestrial race's contacts with humans, about secret sects and the worship of other beings such as Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep, who, "when he takes on human form, will wear a wax mask and a robe that will conceal him...