"The Night Wire" is a horror story detailing a strange episode in the life of a night editor/wire editor in 1926.
It's by H. F. Arnold, who only ever published three stories, but it remains one of the most popular - and unsettling - from that era in Weird Tales history.
I am myself the modern day night editor and wire editor for three newspapers and a writer and consumer of horror, so of course I love this tale, which is firmly entrenched in Lovecraft territory.
I first learned of this piece thanks to Patton Oswalt, of all people, who did exactly what I'm doing here - discussing 31 horror stories he loves over the month of October - back in 2006.
I'm trying to make this and Michael Shea's "The Autopsy" the only duplicates on the two lists.
Go check out Patton's. He's got some good stuff there!
It's by H. F. Arnold, who only ever published three stories, but it remains one of the most popular - and unsettling - from that era in Weird Tales history.
I am myself the modern day night editor and wire editor for three newspapers and a writer and consumer of horror, so of course I love this tale, which is firmly entrenched in Lovecraft territory.
I first learned of this piece thanks to Patton Oswalt, of all people, who did exactly what I'm doing here - discussing 31 horror stories he loves over the month of October - back in 2006.
I'm trying to make this and Michael Shea's "The Autopsy" the only duplicates on the two lists.
Go check out Patton's. He's got some good stuff there!