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I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.
23.5.2025 06:17I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
Congrats, Pabodie, on the drill that opened up the cave.
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...Congrats, Pabodie, on the drill that opened up the cave.
23.5.2025 05:17Congrats, Pabodie, on the drill that opened up the cave.https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
It was unspeakably shocking, and I do not see how I lived through it.
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...It was unspeakably shocking, and I do not see how I lived through it.
23.5.2025 01:17It was unspeakably shocking, and I do not see how I lived through it.https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
The west of Ireland, too, is full of wild rumor and legendry, and a fantastic painter named Ardois-Bonnot hangs a blasphemous _Dream...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...The west of Ireland, too, is full of wild rumor and legendry, and a fantastic painter named Ardois-Bonnot hangs a blasphemous _Dream Landscape_ in the Paris spring salon of 1926.
23.5.2025 00:17The west of Ireland, too, is full of wild rumor and legendry, and a fantastic painter named Ardois-Bonnot hangs a blasphemous _Dream...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
Leng, wherever in space or time it might brood, was not a region I would care to be in or near, nor did I relish the proximity of a world...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...Leng, wherever in space or time it might brood, was not a region I would care to be in or near, nor did I relish the proximity of a world that had ever bred such ambiguous and archæan monstrosities as those Lake had just mentioned.
22.5.2025 23:17Leng, wherever in space or time it might brood, was not a region I would care to be in or near, nor did I relish the proximity of a world...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
Darkness fell upon a stricken countryside too passive to organize for real defense.
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...Darkness fell upon a stricken countryside too passive to organize for real defense.
22.5.2025 22:17Darkness fell upon a stricken countryside too passive to organize for real defense.https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
When he complained, and longed to escape into twilight realms where magic molded all the little vivid fragments and prized associations of...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...When he complained, and longed to escape into twilight realms where magic molded all the little vivid fragments and prized associations of his mind into vistas of breathless expectancy and unquenchable delight, they turned him instead toward the new-found prodigies of science, bidding him find wonder in the atom's vortex and mystery in the sky's dimensions.
22.5.2025 21:17When he complained, and longed to escape into twilight realms where magic molded all the little vivid fragments and prized associations of...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
"_Ygnaiih ... ygnaiih ... thflthkh'ngha ... Yog-Sothoth...._" rang the hideous croaking out of space.
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo..."_Ygnaiih ... ygnaiih ... thflthkh'ngha ... Yog-Sothoth...._" rang the hideous croaking out of space.
22.5.2025 20:17"_Ygnaiih ... ygnaiih ... thflthkh'ngha ... Yog-Sothoth...._" rang the hideous croaking out of space.https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
On the gentler slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...On the gentler slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges; but these are all vacant now, the wide chimneys crumbling and the shingled sides bulging perilously beneath low gambrel roofs.
22.5.2025 19:17On the gentler slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
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...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...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.
22.5.2025 18:17By 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...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
We certainly did not mean to face what we feared--yet I will not deny that we may have had a lurking, unconscious wish to spy certain things...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...We certainly did not mean to face what we feared--yet I will not deny that we may have had a lurking, unconscious wish to spy certain things from some hidden vantage point.
22.5.2025 16:17We certainly did not mean to face what we feared--yet I will not deny that we may have had a lurking, unconscious wish to spy certain things...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
About 2 in the morning a frightful stench and the savage barking of the dogs awakened the household at Elmer Frye's, on the eastern edge...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...About 2 in the morning a frightful stench and the savage barking of the dogs awakened the household at Elmer Frye's, on the eastern edge of Cold Spring Glen, and all agreed that they could hear a sort of muffled swishing or lapping sound from somewhere outside.
22.5.2025 12:17About 2 in the morning a frightful stench and the savage barking of the dogs awakened the household at Elmer Frye's, on the eastern edge...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
They shook their heads at the visitors' plan to stand guard at the Frye ruins near the glen; and as they left, had little expectancy of...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...They shook their heads at the visitors' plan to stand guard at the Frye ruins near the glen; and as they left, had little expectancy of ever seeing the watchers again.
22.5.2025 11:17They shook their heads at the visitors' plan to stand guard at the Frye ruins near the glen; and as they left, had little expectancy of...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
Massive stalagmites deposited above them.
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...Massive stalagmites deposited above them.
22.5.2025 08:17Massive stalagmites deposited above them.https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
He seemed to regard the circumstance as one of great significance, and told the loungers at Osborn's that he thought his time had almost...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...He seemed to regard the circumstance as one of great significance, and told the loungers at Osborn's that he thought his time had almost come.
22.5.2025 07:17He seemed to regard the circumstance as one of great significance, and told the loungers at Osborn's that he thought his time had almost...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
Some of the glaciers appeared to lead up to wind-bared passes with unusual continuity, and upon reaching our chosen pass we found that its...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...Some of the glaciers appeared to lead up to wind-bared passes with unusual continuity, and upon reaching our chosen pass we found that its case formed no exception.
22.5.2025 04:17Some of the glaciers appeared to lead up to wind-bared passes with unusual continuity, and upon reaching our chosen pass we found that its...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
My indecisive speculation whether to explore the passage alone and immediately with my pocket-light or to try to assemble a band of...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...My indecisive speculation whether to explore the passage alone and immediately with my pocket-light or to try to assemble a band of squatters for the quest was interrupted after a time by a sudden rush of wind from the outside which blew out the candle and left me in stark blackness.
22.5.2025 03:17My indecisive speculation whether to explore the passage alone and immediately with my pocket-light or to try to assemble a band of...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
It will be remembered that in that fantastic tale there is a word of unknown but terrible and prodigious significance connected with the...
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...It will be remembered that in that fantastic tale there is a word of unknown but terrible and prodigious significance connected with the antarctic and screamed eternally by the gigantic, spectrally snowy birds of that malign region's core.
22.5.2025 02:17It will be remembered that in that fantastic tale there is a word of unknown but terrible and prodigious significance connected with the...https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
Something very like fright had come over all the explorers before anything more definite than rock and ooze and weed was seen.
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...Something very like fright had come over all the explorers before anything more definite than rock and ooze and weed was seen.
22.5.2025 00:17Something very like fright had come over all the explorers before anything more definite than rock and ooze and weed was seen.https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
They had traded the false gods of fear and blind piety for those of license and anarchy.
https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...They had traded the false gods of fear and blind piety for those of license and anarchy.
21.5.2025 23:17They had traded the false gods of fear and blind piety for those of license and anarchy.https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBo...
