The night wire

"The Night Wire" by H. F. Arnold is a spooky short story from the early 1900s that looks at scary connections involving isolation and mystery. The story is told by a night wire operator and how he sees things. It's about info and communication in a dark town with secrets. While working late, the main character tells about a strange night where his helper, John Morgan, gets weird messages from a place called Xebico. The city gets covered in a strange fog, causing problems and weird things to happen with people going to help but never coming back. Morgan acts more and more strange with each message, saying things that sound like something not from this world and evil. The main character starts to think the fog is alive and eating the city and its people revealing that Morgan has already been taken over by it, scary the main character not knowing what Xebico is.