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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 47m

It was all mud an' water, an' the sky was dark, an' the rain was wipin' aout all tracks abaout as fast as could be; but beginnin' at the glen maouth, whar the trees bed moved, they was still some o' them awful prints big as bar'ls like he seen Monday."

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

For a time Mercy could secure no more help, since the seven deaths and case of madness, all occurring within five years' space, had begun to set in motion the body of fireside rumor which later became so bizarre.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

And so all through the strange days the professors stayed away in contempt.

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

Even the pictures illustrate only one or two phases of its endless variety, preternatural massiveness, and utterly alien exoticism.

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

The whippoorwills an' fireflies there never did act like they was creaters o' Gawd, an' they's them as says ye kin hear strange things a-rushin' an' a-talkin' in the air daown thar ef ye stand in the right place, atween the rock falls an' Bear's Den."

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

For the terror had not faded with the silhouette, and in a fearsome instant of deeper darkness the watchers saw wriggling at the treetop height a thousand tiny points of faint and unhallowed radiance, tipping each bough like the fire of St.

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

He indulged in no details, but merely told of the deaths of Nahum and Nabby, that of Thaddeus being already known, and mentioned that the cause seemed to be the same strange ailment which had killed the livestock.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Students have always thought conception formed from morbid imaginative treatment of very ancient tropical radiata.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

The storm, with its fury of madly driven ice particles, must have been beyond anything our expedition had encountered before.

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

In a hamlet twenty miles away an orgy of fear had followed the bolt which brought me above ground, and a nameless thing had dropped from an overhanging tree into a weak-roofed cabin.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

That is, none but his grandfather and great-uncle Christopher could, and they were long dead.

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

It wasn't right--it was against Nature--and he thought of those terrible last words of his stricken friend, "It come from some place whar things ain't as they is here ... one o' them professors said so...."

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

By this time the restoration of the house was finished, and those who watched it wondered why one of the upper windows had been made into a solid plank door.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Gale blowing off them impedes navigation."

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

The summits are too rounded and symmetrical to give a sense of comfort and naturalness, and sometimes the sky silhouettes with especial clearness the queer circles of tall stone pillars with which most of them are crowned.

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

Early in August the half-expected outcome developed, and in the small hours of the third Dr. Armitage was awakened suddenly by the wild, fierce cries of the savage watchdog on the college campus.

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

"An' then ... Sally she yelled aout, 'O help, the haouse is a-cavin' in' ... an' on the wire we could hoar a turrible crashin', an' a hull flock o' screamin' ... jest like when Elmer Frye's place was took, only wuss...."

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

Their shapes were monstrous, and the horse had snorted at an odour which struck Stephen as wholly unprecedented.

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

In certain cases existing science will require revision, while in other cases its bold deductions are magnificently confirmed.

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

The natural leadership with which my uncle procured the instruments from the laboratories of Brown University and the Cranston Street Armory, and instinctively assumed direction of our venture, was a marvelous commentary on the potential vitality and resilience of a man of eighty-one. Elihu […]

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

Sawyer, as clumsy as most non-users of optical devices are, fumbled a while; but eventually focused the lenses with Armitage's aid.

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

Then too, we had spoken to him in advance of our quest; and I felt after my uncle's going that he would understand and assist me in some vitally necessary public explanations.

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

The trees near it were sickly and stunted, and many dead trunks stood or lay rotting at the rim.

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

Choosing the direction toward the house, I scrambled recklessly into the narrow burrow; squirming ahead blindly and rapidly, and flashing but seldom the lamp I kept before me.

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

Seething, stewing, surging, bubbling like serpents' slime it rolled up and out of that yawning hole, spreading like a septic contagion and streaming from the cellar at every point of egress--streaming out to scatter through the accursed midnight forests and strew fear, madness, and death.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

It was, he said, exactly like a smell he had found in the tool-shed abandoned when the house was finally repaired, and like the faint odors which he sometimes thought he caught near the stone circles on the mountains.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

In the chaos of sliding, shifting earth I clawed and floundered helplessly till the rain on my head steadied me and I saw that I had come to the surface in a familiar spot; a steep unforested place on the southwest slope of the mountain.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

It was decided that Danforth and I try it first, and we awaked at seven a.m. intending an early trip; though heavy winds--mentioned in our brief bulletin to the outside world--delayed our start till nearly nine o'clock. I have already repeated the noncommittal story we told the men at camp--and […]

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Had any of the Old Ones shifted north ahead of the creeping ice cap?

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Examining one day the reserve specimens roughly set on the storage shelves in a rear room of the museum, my eye was caught by an odd picture in one of the old papers spread beneath the stones.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I ought to be hardened by this stage; but there are some experiences and intimations which scar too deeply to permit of healing, and leave only such added sensitiveness that memory re-inspired all the original horror.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Johansen's voyage had begun just as he told it to the vice-admiralty.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Our exact motive in looking back again was perhaps no more than the immemorial instinct of the pursued to gauge the nature and course of its pursuer; or perhaps it was an automatic attempt to answer a subconscious question raised by one of our senses.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

God knows what I expected to find--I only felt that I was digging in the grave of a man whose ghost stalked by night.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

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 · 09/10/2026

Again he seemed to be in the interior of a house--an old house, apparently--but the details and inhabitants were constantly changing, and he could never be certain of the faces or the furniture, or even of the room itself, since doors and windows seemed in just as great a state of flux as the […]

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Over a fourth of those who reported anything, reported scenes and half-sounds not unlike those which Wilcox had described; and some of the dreamers confessed acute fear of the gigantic nameless thing visible toward the last.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Wilbur was four and a half then, and looked like a lad of fifteen.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Single stalks three inches diameter branch after six inches into five substalks, each of which branches after eight inches into five small, tapering tentacles or tendrils, giving each stalk a total of twenty-five tentacles.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Perhaps some mineral element from the stone had entered the soil, but it would soon be washed away.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

There are twists of time and space, of vision and reality, which only a dreamer can divine; and from what I know of Carter I think he has merely found a way to traverse these mazes.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

It might explain and relieve much, though perhaps the thing was no more than the delusive aftermath of an earlier shock.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I expeck them an' the souls they hunts fer hev some pretty tough tussles sometimes."

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Many of the crowded family degenerated, moved across the valley, and merged with the mongrel population which was later to produce the pitiful squatters.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

In certain of the sandstones, dynamited and chiseled after boring revealed their nature, we found some highly interesting fossil markings and fragments; notably ferns, seaweeds, trilobites, crinoids, and such mollusks as linguellæ and gastropods--all of which seemed of real significance in […]

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

So far we had made no landing, yet to leave the plateau without an attempt at entering some of the monstrous structures would have been inconceivable.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Snow never seems quite so heavy on the blasted heath as it is elsewhere.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

My slight fall had extinguished the lantern, but I produced an electric pocket-lamp and viewed the small horizontal tunnel which led away indefinitely in both directions.

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Of course, rest was an absurd thought amidst this excitement; and my only wish was to get to Lake's camp as quickly as I could.

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