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The
building
was
full
of
a
frightful
stench
which
Dr
Armitage
knew
too
well
,
and
the
three
men
rushed
across
the
hall
to
the
small
genealogical
reading-room
whence
the
low
whining
came
.
For
a
second
nobody
dared
to
turn
on
the
light
,
then
Armitage
summoned
up
his
courage
and
snapped
the
switch
.
One
of
the
three
--
it
is
not
certain
which
--
shrieked
aloud
at
what
sprawled
before
them
among
disordered
tables
and
overturned
chairs
.
Professor
Rice
declares
that
he
wholly
lost
consciousness
for
an
instant
,
though
he
did
not
stumble
or
fall
.
The
thing
that
lay
half-bent
on
its
side
in
a
foetid
pool
of
greenish-yellow
ichor
and
tarry
stickiness
was
almost
nine
feet
tall
,
and
the
dog
had
torn
off
all
the
clothing
and
some
of
the
skin
.
It
was
not
quite
dead
,
but
twitched
silently
and
spasmodically
while
its
chest
heaved
in
monstrous
unison
with
the
mad
piping
of
the
expectant
whippoorwills
outside
.
Bits
of
shoe-leather
and
fragments
of
apparel
were
scattered
about
the
room
,
and
just
inside
the
window
an
empty
canvas
sack
lay
where
it
had
evidently
been
thrown
.
Near
the
central
desk
a
revolver
had
fallen
,
a
dented
but
undischarged
cartridge
later
explaining
why
it
had
not
been
fired
.
The
thing
itself
,
however
,
crowded
out
all
other
images
at
the
time
.
It
would
be
trite
and
not
wholly
accurate
to
say
that
no
human
pen
could
describe
it
,
but
one
may
properly
say
that
it
could
not
be
vividly
visualized
by
anyone
whose
ideas
of
aspect
and
contour
are
too
closely
bound
up
with
the
common
life-forms
of
this
planet
and
of
the
three
known
dimensions
.
It
was
partly
human
,
beyond
a
doubt
,
with
very
manlike
hands
and
head
,
and
the
goatish
,
chinless
face
had
the
stamp
of
the
Whateley
's
upon
it
.
But
the
torso
and
lower
parts
of
the
body
were
teratologically
fabulous
,
so
that
only
generous
clothing
could
ever
have
enabled
it
to
walk
on
earth
unchallenged
or
uneradicated
.
Above
the
waist
it
was
semi-anthropomorphic
;
though
its
chest
,
where
the
dog
's
rending
paws
still
rested
watchfully
,
had
the
leathery
,
reticulated
hide
of
a
crocodile
or
alligator
.
The
back
was
piebald
with
yellow
and
black
,
and
dimly
suggested
the
squamous
covering
of
certain
snakes
.
Below
the
waist
,
though
,
it
was
the
worst
;
for
here
all
human
resemblance
left
off
and
sheer
phantasy
began
.
The
skin
was
thickly
covered
with
coarse
black
fur
,
and
from
the
abdomen
a
score
of
long
greenish-grey
tentacles
with
red
sucking
mouths
protruded
limply
.
Their
arrangement
was
odd
,
and
seemed
to
follow
the
symmetries
of
some
cosmic
geometry
unknown
to
earth
or
the
solar
system
.
On
each
of
the
hips
,
deep
set
in
a
kind
of
pinkish
,
ciliated
orbit
,
was
what
seemed
to
be
a
rudimentary
eye
;
whilst
in
lieu
of
a
tail
there
depended
a
kind
of
trunk
or
feeler
with
purple
annular
markings
,
and
with
many
evidences
of
being
an
undeveloped
mouth
or
throat
.
The
limbs
,
save
for
their
black
fur
,
roughly
resembled
the
hind
legs
of
prehistoric
earth
's
giant
saurians
,
and
terminated
in
ridgy-veined
pads
that
were
neither
hooves
nor
claws
.
When
the
thing
breathed
,
its
tail
and
tentacles
rhythmically
changed
colour
,
as
if
from
some
circulatory
cause
normal
to
the
non-human
greenish
tinge
,
whilst
in
the
tail
it
was
manifest
as
a
yellowish
appearance
which
alternated
with
a
sickly
grayish-white
in
the
spaces
between
the
purple
rings
.
Of
genuine
blood
there
was
none
;
only
the
foetid
greenish-yellow
ichor
which
trickled
along
the
painted
floor
beyond
the
radius
of
the
stickiness
,
and
left
a
curious
discoloration
behind
it
.
As
the
presence
of
the
three
men
seemed
to
rouse
the
dying
thing
,
it
began
to
mumble
without
turning
or
raising
its
head
.
Dr
Armitage
made
no
written
record
of
its
mouthings
,
but
asserts
confidently
that
nothing
in
English
was
uttered
.
At
first
the
syllables
defied
all
correlation
with
any
speech
of
earth
,
but
towards
the
last
there
came
some
disjointed
fragments
evidently
taken
from
the
Necronomicon
,
that
monstrous
blasphemy
in
quest
of
which
the
thing
had
perished
.
These
fragments
,
as
Armitage
recalls
them
,
ran
something
like
'
N'gai
,
n'gha
'
ghaa
,
bugg-shoggog
,
y'
hah
:
Yog
--
Sothoth
,
Yog
--
Sothoth
...
'
They
trailed
off
into
nothingness
as
the
whippoorwills
shrieked
in
rhythmical
crescendos
of
unholy
anticipation
.
Then
came
a
halt
in
the
gasping
,
and
the
dog
raised
its
head
in
a
long
,
lugubrious
howl
.
A
change
came
over
the
yellow
,
goatish
face
of
the
prostrate
thing
,
and
the
great
black
eyes
fell
in
appallingly
.
Outside
the
window
the
shrilling
of
the
whippoorwills
had
suddenly
ceased
,
and
above
the
murmurs
of
the
gathering
crowd
there
came
the
sound
of
a
panic-struck
whirring
and
fluttering
.
Against
the
moon
vast
clouds
of
feathery
watchers
rose
and
raced
from
sight
,
frantic
at
that
which
they
had
sought
for
prey
.
All
at
once
the
dog
started
up
abruptly
,
gave
a
frightened
bark
,
and
leaped
nervously
out
of
the
window
by
which
it
had
entered
.
A
cry
rose
from
the
crowd
,
and
Dr
Armitage
shouted
to
the
men
outside
that
no
one
must
be
admitted
till
the
police
or
medical
examiner
came
.
He
was
thankful
that
the
windows
were
just
too
high
to
permit
of
peering
in
,
and
drew
the
dark
curtains
carefully
down
over
each
one
.
