The Whistling Room

Carnacki, Hodgson's ghost-finder, is called to an Irish castle to deal with a room that whistles, a vast wet mocking sound that fills the house at night. He brings his instruments and his scepticism, draws his electric pentacle, and investigates with the method of a scientist and the nerve of a soldier.

What he finds is worse than a haunting and older than the castle, a thing bound up with a buried history of the place, and his careful defences are very nearly not enough. One of the strongest Carnacki cases, it blends detective procedure with genuine supernatural menace, a room that is not haunted so much as alive and hostile. The Archive renders the whistling itself, a swing threaded with a sound no mouth should make.