The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories
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Read between March 28 - April 6, 2023
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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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When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky;
Brooke
I definitely see the inspiration in “Fairy Tale,” and I wonder how much of Stephen King’s other work pays tribute to this idea… the Dark Tower series? I wonder if there were references there that I missed.
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the Great Old Ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could Their language reach the fleshly minds of mammals.
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The Thing cannot be described — there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order.
Brooke
Finally, an “eldritch” appearance