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58 pages 1 hour read

T. J. Klune

Under the Whispering Door

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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Chapters 6-9Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 6 Summary

Wallace falls through the front door as he runs away. He believes he sees the shadow of large antlers but convinces himself it is just the trees. He makes it to a convenience store, but he can’t get anyone to see him. When Mei and Hugo arrive shortly after, the cashier greets them, and Wallace does not know why they can be seen by the living when he can’t. He starts to see bits of dust floating around him and is shocked when he realizes that it is his skin flaking off. Mei finds Wallace but he begins to run again, more pieces of him flaking away as he feels the hook in his chest twist tighter. He makes it to the middle of a field where he sees a man hunched over. He asks the man if he can hear him. However, Wallace quickly senses that something is terribly wrong. He knows he made a grave mistake when he sees that, though it looks like a human, the person before him is something else entirely. As the man starts to move toward him, Hugo and Mei find Wallace. Hugo speaks to the man, calling him