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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings;


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Behind the figure was a vague suggestion of a Cyclopean architectural background.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

The writing accompanying this oddity was, aside from a stack of press cuttings, in Professor Angell’s most recent hand;


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

and made no pretence to literary style.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

What seemed to be the main document was headed “CTHULHU CULT” in characters painstakingly printed to avoid the erroneous reading of a word so unheard-of.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

The manuscript was divided into two sections, the first of which was headed “1925—Dream and Dream Work of H. A. Wilcox, 7 Thomas St., Providence, R.I.”, and the second, “Narrative of Inspector John R. Legrasse, 121 Bienville St., New Orleans, La., at 1908 A. A. S. Mtg.—Notes on Same, & Prof. Webb’s Acct.”


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

The other manuscript papers were all brief notes, some of them accounts of the queer dreams of different persons, some of them citations from theosophical books and magazines (notably W. Scott-Elliot’s Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria), and the rest comments on long-surviving secret societies and hidden cults, with references to passages in such mythological and anthropological source-books as Frazer’s Golden Bough and Miss Murray’s Witch-Cult in Western Europe.