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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

But even all this was not so bad as the blasted heath.

Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

I've seen Wilbur Whateley's diary and read some of the strange old books he used to read, and I think I know the right kind of a spell to recite to make the thing fade away.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

There seemed to be only four of them, whereas Lake's bulletins would have suggested no less than eight as forming the group which had preceded us.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

To be brief--it was simply the raucous squawking of a penguin.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Job now to get fourteen huge specimens to camp without dogs, which bark furiously and can't be trusted near them.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

"What was it, Nahum--what was it?" He whispered, and the cleft, bulging lips were just able to crackle out a final answer.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

I had drilled myself in preparation for the crucial moment, and blind training saved me.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

It was, Danforth later told me, precisely what he had caught in infinitely muffled form when at that spot beyond the alley corner above the glacial level; and it certainly had a shocking resemblance to the wind pipings we had both heard around the lofty mountain caves.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

We saw several penguins as we passed along, and speculated on the distance we would have to traverse.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

First the world's greatest mountains, and then this.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal myth, especially fabled Elder Things in _Necronomicon_.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

As the afternoon advanced, it became increasingly difficult to see; and we heard the rumble of a thunderstorm gathering over Tempest Mountain.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

How far this continuity had extended beyond the Oligocene Age when the cavern was closed was of course past all speculation.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It was, no doubt, the giant shape he had raved of in delirium.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The health of our land party--twenty men and fifty-five Alaskan sledge dogs--was remarkable, though of course we had so far encountered no really destructive temperatures or windstorms.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It was after four when Lake at last prepared to sign off and advised us all to share the rest period his outfit would take when the shelter walls were a little higher.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Had not, then, the riots of those bygone seventeen-thirties set moving certain kinetic patterns in the morbid brain of one or more of them--notably the sinister Paul Roulet--which obscurely survived the bodies murdered and buried by the mob, and continued to function in some multiple-dimensioned […]

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

His fancy had not gone so far as mine, but he felt that the place was rare in its imaginative potentialities, and worthy of note as an inspiration in the field of the grotesque and macabre.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

But the shying of horses near Nahum's house had now become an acknowledged thing, and all the basis for a cycle of whispered legend was fast taking form.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

In the twilight he hastened home, the screams of the mad woman and the nervous child ringing horrible in his ears.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Halted by some vague fear, he heard still further sounds below.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Early apprehensions about sudden antarctic winds were revived, and under Atwood's supervision precautions were taken to bank the tents, new dog corral, and crude aëroplane shelters with snow, on the mountainward side.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

There were ammonia and caustic soda, alcohol and ether, nauseous carbon disulphide and a dozen others; but although the weight grew steadily less as time passed, and the fragment seemed to be slightly cooling, there was no change in the solvents to show that they had attacked the substance at all.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Indeed, I could see that my uncle had thought deeply on the subject, and that he was glad of my own interest--an open-minded and sympathetic interest which enabled him to discuss with me matters at which others would merely have laughed.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

This was no breath from the skies whose motions and dimensions our astronomers measure or deem too vast to measure.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The day was pleasant, but even in the brightest sunlight a kind of quiet dread and portent seemed to hover about the strangely domed hills and the deep, shadowy ravines of the stricken region.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Their dreams at night, they protest, are very horrible in that grotesque country; and surely the very look of the dark realm is enough to stir a morbid fancy.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

It was the coroner, seated near a window overlooking the yard, who first noticed the glow about the well.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

And yet amid that tense, godless calm the high bare boughs of all the trees in the yard were moving.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

It is significant that their annals failed to mention many advanced and potent races of beings whose mighty cultures and towering ethics figure persistently in certain obscure legends.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R'lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for Them.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

It was the Frye incident all over again, and nothing dead or living was found in either of the collapsed shells which had been the Bishop house and barn.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The aperture was black with a darkness almost material.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The steady trend down the ages was from water to land--a movement encouraged by the rise of new land masses, though the ocean was never wholly deserted.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The linkage of old and new abodes was made more effective by means of several gradings and improvements along the connecting routes, including the chiseling of numerous direct tunnels from the ancient metropolis to the black abyss--sharply down-pointing tunnels whose mouths we carefully drew […]

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Washed down from unknown jungles of Mesozoic tree ferns and fungi, and forests of Tertiary cycads, fan palms, and primitive angiosperms, this osseous medley contained representatives of more Cretaceous, Eocene, and other animal species than the greatest palæontologist could have counted or […]

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

It must be somethin' from away off in the sky like the men from the college last year says the meteor stone was.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

It had digestion and circulation, and eliminated waste matter through the reddish tubes of its starfish-shaped base.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

It had done a deed, but the squatters had fired the cabin in frenzy before it could escape.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Arouses much curiosity as to source and weathering.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Some of the sculptures suggested that they had passed through a stage of mechanized life on other planets, but had receded upon finding its effects emotionally unsatisfying.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

There was a suggestion of queerly disordered pictures superimposed one upon another; an arrangement in which the essentials of time as well as of space seemed dissolved and mixed in the most illogical fashion.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

What was really beyond dispute is that a frightful proportion of persons died there; or more accurately, _had_ died there, since after some peculiar happenings over sixty years ago the building had become deserted through the sheer impossibility of renting it.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Never could they realize that their brute foundations were as shifting and contradictory as the gods of their elders, and that the satisfaction of one moment is the bane of the next.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

We were careful, too, about the public's general peace of mind; hence Danforth and I said little about that frightful trip over the mountains the next day.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

There were eleven known dead, young Gedney was missing.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

What relation it had to the French ravings of Rhoby Harris and other inhabitants of the shunned house, imagination or future discovery alone could determine.

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