Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Complete Fiction. Howard Phillips Lovecraft

on the hill… guard… candles and charms… their priests…

      “Sense of distance gone—far is near and near is far. No light—no glass—see that steeple—that tower—window—can hear—Roderick Usher—am mad or going mad—the thing is stirring and fumbling in the tower—I am it and it is I—I want to get out… must get out and unify the forces… It knows where I am…

      “I am Robert Blake, but I see the tower in the dark. There is a monstrous odour… senses transfigured… boarding at that tower window cracking and giving way… Iä… ngai… ygg…

      “I see it—coming here—hell-wind—titan blur—black wings—Yog-Sothoth save me—the three-lobed burning eye…”

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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      Written: November-3rd December 1931

      First Published in The Shadow over Innsmouth,

      Everett, PA: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936, Pages 13-158