The title could have meant so many things.

58. Dark Forces: Devil Wind – Laurie Bridges & Paul Alexander

Peter Wardwell loves sailing. His ancestor, Simon Wardwell, loved evil and his whistle (that’s literal). Peter has just found a whistle in the foundation of a house being dug up and it’s a weird one. He decides to blow it while out on his sailboat and suddenly there’s a storm with heavy fog that drives him into this really weird, smelly cove.

The next day, he goes out sailing again with Mary Anne, his girlfriend who he’s very innocent with, and they re-find the cove, sit down in the heavy smells for a picnic (I guess, it seems to ebb), and guess what comes out again? Whistle mania, it is. This time the smelly fog separates Peter and Mary Anne by being so dense no one can see through it and Peter gets hurt while Mary Anne manages to get in the boat and be rescued by a helpful old timer, who also rescues Peter. And he’s heard of the very cove they were in. It’s got a history.

Peter seems different after they get back, colder for sure, and way more tired all the time. Meanwhile, the town’s founding families that weren’t so focused on evil are experiencing some gruesome pet deaths. Truly gruesome. Mary Anne, meanwhile, is avoiding Peter and making friends with Mrs. Durham, an elderly lady with a serious tea set and serious roots in the town. And primary source materials! A good way to find out what the hell is going on, but stopping it is much more muddled and possessiony.

 

Hen Wen and Thorfy’s idea of a picnic, or a hay buffet, really. It doesn’t involve a smelly cove, but there usually is some level of whistling.

 

Hen Wen understands vengeance, whether it be water based or traveling across time. And she’s got an axe instead of a whistle, although she was a very effective whistle pig as well. Formidable.
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