“You’re turning the caulker’s mate into a bogeyman,” said Des Voeux. “He done that to his self already,” said Andrews. “But not a bogeyman, the Devil. The actual Devil. Him and his tame monster, Magnus Manson. They sold their souls — God-damn them — and received some dark power for it. Mark my words.” “You’d think that one real monster would be enough for any arctic expedition,” said Robert Thomas. No one laughed. “It’s all one real monster,” Edward Couch said at last. “And not a new one to our race.”
