""it was religion right enough." He was quiet for so long that Diana wondered if he were nodding off. Suddenly he said, "The druids made their last stand here at Moonwell. They did what they'd never dared to do--they called what they worshiped to come down from the moon and stay on the earth."

"I thought they worshiped the sun."

Needham thumped the arms of his chair. "They had a god of the moon all right. They just didn't dare give it a name. They sacrificed people to it, but the priests didn't stay to see it come for them. They used to throw people down shafts like the one your gospeling friend wants to tamper with. That way it had to go down out of the light to get its sacrifices.""
— Ramsey Campbell (The Hungry Moon)