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The Horror in Clay

           Apulpy,tentacledhead surmountedagrotesqueandscalybodywithrudimentarywings; butitwasthegeneraloutlineofthewholewhichmadeitmostshockinglyfrightful. BehindthefigurewasavaguesuggestionofaCyclopeanarchitecturalbackground. 

           Thewritingaccompanyingthisodditywas,asidefromastackofpresscuttings, inProfessorAngell’smostrecenthand;vandmadenopretensetoliterarystyle.Whatseemedtobethemaindocumentwasheaded"CTHULHUCULT" incharacterspainstakinglyprintedtoavoidtheerroneousreadingofawordsounheard-of. Thismanuscriptwasdividedintotwosections, thefirstofwhichwasheaded "1925DreamandDreamWorkofH.A.Wilcox,7ThomasSt.,Providence,R.I.", andthesecond, "NarrativeofInspectorJohnR.Legrasse,121BienvilleSt.,NewOrleans,La.,at1908A.A.S.Mtg.NotesonSame,&Prof.Webb’sAcct." Theothermanuscriptpaperswereallbriefnotes, someofthemaccountsofthequeerdreamsofdifferentpersons, someofthemcitationsfromtheosophicalbooksandmagazines (notablyW.ScottElliot’sAtlantisandtheLostLemuria), andtherestcommentsonlong-survivingsecretsocietiesandhiddencults, withreferencestopassagesinsuchmythologicalandanthropologicalsource-books asFrazer’sGoldenBoughandMissMurray’sWitch-CultinWesternEurope. Thecuttingslargelyalludedtooutrementalillnesses andoutbreaksofgroupfollyormaniainthespringof1925. 

           Thefirsthalfoftheprincipalmanuscripttoldaverypeculiartale. ItappearsthatonMarch1st,1925,athin,darkyoungman ofneuroticandexcitedaspecthadcalleduponProfessorAngellbearingthesingularclaybas-relief, whichwasthenexceedinglydampandfresh. 

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