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“Your tail, Richard! The scales down your back. What of them?”
“What the hell are you, some kind of peeping tom?”
“Richard, I know you have webbing between your toes.”
“Shut up you madman! Shut up!”
“Ia Hastur! Tonight the stars are right! The time of Their return is at hand!”
I turned and fled from that place in blind terror. Behind me the machinery began to whir and clank. As I passed a copy of Cultes des Ghoules slid down a chute and fell into a basket. The blue Light arced again and the nameless creature from Shaggai began to stir. I glimpsed over my shoulder—God that I had not!—and saw that the creature’s head was not at the front or the back, but in the middle.
The last thing I heard was the shrill voice of Latham Knucklebury cackling in hideous, obscene triumph.
“Run you coward! Run and die! You won’t escape Them. Ia! Ia Hastur! We want a touchdown! Ia! Harken ye, O Dark Ones, to the ancient words! Ia Shub-Niggurath! Yog-Sothoth! Yog-Sothoth!”
* * * *
Three months have passed since that frightful spectacle at Miskatonic University, and I know now that I should not have run away. I should have allied myself with Latham Knucklebury and the demonic forces he served, for then I would have had some hope of survival.
Since last I saw him there have been signs and wonders, reports of strange lights in the sky, unheard of shapes rising out of the seas, monsters roaming the countryside, and even a walking winged statue haunting New England.
This morning the sun did not rise. There are no stars, and a black shroud has fallen over the world. I can hear nothing but static on the radio and my watch has stopped, so I know not what hour it is, but I know that all over the globe cities are in flame, and humankind reels before its last, irresistible nemesis. The Old Ones have returned and again they walk the face of their ancient home!
I shall not live long now! The Last news bulletin was two days ago, and Professor Chambers has been found murdered in his office, with inhuman three-toed footprints in blood on the ceiling. A similar doom awaits me.
God! Downstairs! My wife is screaming. Something has shattered the living room window! I hear the flapping of leathern wings! Outside in the hall! The house is filled with smoke! Terrible stench! Hell—wind!
“Help me! The three-lobed burning pustule…”
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