(Found) Looking for Lovecraftian type story with a dead tree and mist

[Skycastle]

Does anyone remember a story about a dead tree in the middle of dead ground, with mist coming up out of the ground at night? There was a life-sucking, invisible creature hovering above the tree, and a bird fell dead after flying over the tree. People walking in the mist would begin to slow down as the life was sucked out of them. I don't know if Lovecraft wrote this, but it's very similar to his work.

 

[Randy M.]

I'm not positive, but it sounds like Ralph Cram's "The Dead Valley".

 

[Skycastle]

I'm not positive, but it sounds like Ralph Cram's "The Dead Valley".

Thanks! That's must be it!

 

[Randy M.]

You're welcome.

 

[tachyon]

that was quick!
bravo