Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (The Cthulhu Casebooks, #1)
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To be precise, three typed manuscripts which together tell a single tale. They are of some antiquity, perhaps a century old, and at a cursory glance purport to have been written by none other than Dr John Watson, a literary figure with whose oeuvre you have a more than nodding acquaintance, to judge by your own recent published output. They were discovered at the back of a closet in Mr Lovecraft’s bedroom, inside a rusty strongbox.
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Oh ho, so the tradition continues... Liking the lore here
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one scion of the dynasty became involved with a cult of demon-raising black-magic practitioners, went mad, and essentially bequeathed his fellow acolytes all his worldly wealth, thereafter living out his final days in an insane asylum, the proverbial gibbering wreck.
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Ok so eldritch madness gotcha
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His less wholesome personal attributes – principally his racism, a disgust for non-Anglo-Saxon cultures often expressed in his journalism and private correspondence
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...lovecraft's poor poor cat
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To banish the shadows, too, for I know all too well what shadows may hide within their dark folds.
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Good ol' sleep paralysis demons
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“THE MOST MERCIFUL THING IN THE WORLD, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
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But man, the corkboard of my mind sure tries