The shadow over innsmout

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Zadok was really screaming now, and the mad frenzy of his voice disturbed me more than I care to own

“Curse ye, dun’t set thar a’starin’ at me with them eyes – I tell Obed Marsh he’s in hell, an, hez got to stay thar! Heh, heh… in hell, I says! Can’t git me – I hain’t done nothin’ nor told nobody nothin’ – –

“Oh, you, young feller? Wal, even ef I hain’t told nobody nothin’ yet, I’m a’goin’ to naow! Yew jest set still an’ listen to me, boy – this is what I ain’t never told
nobody… I says I didn’t get to do pryin’ arter that night – but I faound things about jest the same!”

“Yew want to know what the reel horror is, hey? Wal, it’s this – it ain’t what them fish devils hez done, but what they’re a-goin’ to do! They’re a-bringin’

things up aout o’ whar they come from into the taown – been doin’ it fer years, an’ slackenin’ up lately. Them haouses north o’ the river betwixt Water an’ Main Streets is full of ‘em – them devils an’ what they brung – an’ when they git ready… I say, when they git… ever hear tell of a shoggoth?

‘Hey, d’ye hear me? I tell ye I know what them things be – I seen ‘em one mght when… eh-ahhh-ah! e’yahhh… “
The hideous suddenness and inhuman frightfulness of the old man’s shriek almost made me faint. His eyes, looking past me toward the malodorous sea,

were positively starting from his head; while his face was a mask of fear worthy of Greek tragedy. His bony claw dug monstrously into my shoulder, and

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The shadow over innsmout