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Rescued Seaman Refuses Particulars of Strange Experience

there were double meanings in the Necronomicon

There were insane shouts and harrowing screams, soul-chilling chants and dancing devil-flames.

a gigantic thing “miles high” which walked or lumbered about

There had been aeons when other Things ruled on the earth.

the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth

the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth

there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy

Flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive

A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.

Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep

Briden looked back and went mad

Three men were swept up by the flabby claws.

It lumbered slobberingly into sight

twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles

the geometry of the place was all wrong

the cosmic majesty of this dripping Babylon of elder daemons

Johansen and his men landed at a sloping mud-bank on this monstrous Acropolis

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