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The Whispering Thing
Laurie McClintock & Culpeper Chunn · 1923
A fog-laden Weird Tales mystery of impossible deaths, secret-service shadows and a French detective racing through laboratories, police rooms and city streets to catch the whispering terror before it strikes again.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 32 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Whispering Thing Case MapA city investigation around fog, houses, studios and Secret Service clues.
Peret's ApartmentThe whisper enters a locked room.
The Murder Case
Laurie McClintock and Culpeper Chunn in Weird Tales
The Characters, Plate 1
The Characters, Plate 2
The Body at the WindowThe first clue dies in the fog.
The Wolf's HouseA watched house answers with teeth and bullets.
This edition
- Title
- The Whispering Thing
- Author
- Laurie McClintock & Culpeper Chunn
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 67 original artworks · 32 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 9 · about 23,024 words
- Reading time
- 1 h 32 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #69606
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