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The story itself is available for free on the [[http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2014/01/15/classic-weird-the-night-wire-by-h-f-arnold/ Weird Tales website]] and has been anthologized several times, but never by the author who wrote two more short stories before disappearing completely.
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The story itself is available for free on the [[http://weirdtalesmagazine.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209091240/http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2014/01/15/classic-weird-the-night-wire-by-h-f-arnold/ Weird Tales website]] and has been anthologized several times, but never by the author who wrote two more short stories before disappearing completely.
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* FogOfDoom: The fog covering Xebico is actively consuming the towns inhabitants.
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* FogOfDoom: The fog covering Xebico is actively consuming the towns town's inhabitants.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Despite being dead for hours [[spoiler:John Morgan]] manages to finish typing the entire Xebico report.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Despite being dead for hours [[spoiler:John Morgan]] Morgan manages to finish typing the entire Xebico report.report]].
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The night wire is a telegraph line, not a radio broadcast. It's repeatedly stated, including the formatting explanation.
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* ApocalypticLog: The titular "night wire" is the transcription of a radio broadcast from a reporter within the town of Xebico as he narrates the town's destruction up until it takes him too.
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* ApocalypticLog: The titular "night wire" is the transcription of a radio broadcast series of telegraph messages from a reporter within the town of Xebico as he narrates the town's destruction up until it takes him too.
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* TheAllConcealingI: Nothing is known of the narrator other than what his job is.
* ApocalypticLog: The titular "night wire" is the transcription of a radio broadcast from a reporter within the town of Xebico as he narrates the town's destruction up until it takes him too.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Maybe, [[RiddleForTheAges or maybe not]]. NothingIsScarier that way.
* DeadlineNews: The person reporting the titular night wire narrates the events that are destroying the town until the very end. [[spoiler:It's this trope twice over, even -- John Morgan, the man who received and transcribed the night wire, died during the act in some unknown way and his zombified body finished the job.]]
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:John Morgan's body is dead in this fashion, and the narrator notices that the eyes' glazing is evidence that Morgan has passed on for some time.]]
* CosmicHorrorStory: Maybe, [[RiddleForTheAges or maybe not]]. NothingIsScarier that way.
* DeadlineNews: The person reporting the titular night wire narrates the events that are destroying the town until the very end. [[spoiler:It's this trope twice over, even -- John Morgan, the man who received and transcribed the night wire, died during the act in some unknown way and his zombified body finished the job.]]
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:John Morgan's body is dead in this fashion, and the narrator notices that the eyes' glazing is evidence that Morgan has passed on for some time.]]
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The Night-Wire is a 1926 short story by a man named H.F Arnold and happens to be one of the most famous short stories ever published in Magazine/WeirdTales. "The Night-Wire" itself follows the story of two radio operators who happen to work late at night, an anonymous narrator and a man named John Morgan who usually take down the reports of various tragedies from all over the world. However on one night John receives a mysterious bulletin from a town called Xebico, a town that neither of them have ever heard of. The report starts out describing how the city was enveloped by an unthinkably massive fog. The reports only get more disturbing from there.
The story itself available for free on the [[http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2014/01/15/classic-weird-the-night-wire-by-h-f-arnold/ Weird Tales website]] and has been anthologized several times, but never by the author who wrote two more short stories before disappearing completely.
The story itself available for free on the [[http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2014/01/15/classic-weird-the-night-wire-by-h-f-arnold/ Weird Tales website]] and has been anthologized several times, but never by the author who wrote two more short stories before disappearing completely.
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The story itself is available for free on the [[http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2014/01/15/classic-weird-the-night-wire-by-h-f-arnold/ Weird Tales website]] and has been anthologized several times, but never by the author who wrote two more short stories before disappearing
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* The story itself available for free on the [[http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2014/01/15/classic-weird-the-night-wire-by-h-f-arnold/ Weird Tales website]] and has been anthologized several times, but never by the author who wrote two more short stories before disappearing completely.
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The story itself available for free on the [[http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2014/01/15/classic-weird-the-night-wire-by-h-f-arnold/ Weird Tales website]] and has been anthologized several times, but never by the author who wrote two more short stories before disappearing completely.
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* FictionalColor: The colors that appear over the sky in Xebico are described as
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* GhostTown: Xebico [[spoiler:after every one of the inhabitants has been consumed by the fog]]fog]].
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Despite being dead for hours [[spoiler:John Morgan]] manages to finish typing the entire Xebico reportreport.
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* AlienSky: The sky above Xebico becomes filled with strange lights and a FictionalColor as the fog grows larger.
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The Night-Wire is a 1926 short story by a man named H.F Arnold and happens to be one of the most famous short stories ever published in Magazine/WeirdTales. "The Night-Wire" itself follows the story of two radio operators who happen to work late at night, an anonymous narrator and a man named John Morgan. Usually taking Morgan who usually take down the reports of various tragedies from all over the world. However on one night John receives a mysterious bulletin from a town called Xebico, a town that neither of them have ever heard of. The report starts out describing how the city was enveloped by an unthinkably massive fog. The reports only get more disturbing from there.
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The Night-Wire is a 1926 short story by a man named H.F Arnold and happens to be one of the most famous short stories ever published in Magazine/Weird Tales. "The Night-Wire" itself follows the story of two radio operators who happen to work late at night, an anonymous narrator and a man named John Morgan. Usually taking down the reports of various tragedies from all over the world. However on one night John receives a mysterious bulletin from a town called Xebico, a town that neither of them have ever heard of. The report starts out describing how the city was enveloped by an unthinkably massive fog. The reports only get more disturbing from there.
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The Night-Wire is a 1926 short story by a man named H.F Arnold and happens to be one of the most famous short stories ever published in Magazine/Weird Tales.Magazine/WeirdTales. "The Night-Wire" itself follows the story of two radio operators who happen to work late at night, an anonymous narrator and a man named John Morgan. Usually taking down the reports of various tragedies from all over the world. However on one night John receives a mysterious bulletin from a town called Xebico, a town that neither of them have ever heard of. The report starts out describing how the city was enveloped by an unthinkably massive fog. The reports only get more disturbing from there.
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* The story itself available for free on the[[http://weirdtalesmagazine.the [[http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2014/01/15/classic-weird-the-night-wire-by-h-f-arnold/ Weird Tales website]] and has been anthologized several times, but never by the author who wrote two more short stories before disappearing completely.
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The Night-Wire is a 1926 short story by a man named H.F Arnold and happens to be one of the most famous short stories ever published in Magazine/Weird Tales. "The Night-Wire" itself follows the story of two radio operators who happen to work late at night, an anonymous narrator and a man named John Morgan. Usually taking down the reports of various tragedies from all over the world. However on one night John receives a mysterious bulletin from a town called Xebico, a town that neither of them have ever heard of. The report starts out describing how the city was enveloped by an unthinkably massive fog. The reports only get more disturbing from there.
*The story itself available for free on the[[http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2014/01/15/classic-weird-the-night-wire-by-h-f-arnold/ Weird Tales website]] and has been anthologized several times, but never by the author who wrote two more short stories before disappearing completely.
A Description of Tropes Appearing in The Night-Wire:
*FictionalColor: The colors that appear over the sky in Xebico are described as
**''Colors as yet unseen by man or demon''
*FogOfDoom: The fog covering Xebico is actively consuming the towns inhabitants.
*NothingIsScarier: Where to begin?
**We never find out where the fog came from or why.
**We never learn what killed [[spoiler:John Morgan]] or how.
**[[spoiler: We never even find out if Xebico was a real town or not!]]
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: Despite being dead for hours [[spoiler:John Morgan]] manages to finish typing the entire Xebico report
*The story itself available for free on the[[http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2014/01/15/classic-weird-the-night-wire-by-h-f-arnold/ Weird Tales website]] and has been anthologized several times, but never by the author who wrote two more short stories before disappearing completely.
A Description of Tropes Appearing in The Night-Wire:
*FictionalColor: The colors that appear over the sky in Xebico are described as
**''Colors as yet unseen by man or demon''
*FogOfDoom: The fog covering Xebico is actively consuming the towns inhabitants.
*NothingIsScarier: Where to begin?
**We never find out where the fog came from or why.
**We never learn what killed [[spoiler:John Morgan]] or how.
**[[spoiler: We never even find out if Xebico was a real town or not!]]
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: Despite being dead for hours [[spoiler:John Morgan]] manages to finish typing the entire Xebico report
