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Howard Lovecraft

The Rats in the Walls

  • Lykke Veruphas quoted4 years ago
    Now they have blown up Exham Priory, taken my Nigger-Man away from me, and shut me into this barred room
  • Lykke Veruphas quoted4 years ago
    Then there came a sound from that inky, boundless, farther distance that I thought I knew; and I saw my old black cat dart past me like a winged Egyptian god, straight into the illimitable gulf of the unknown. But I was not far behind, for there was no doubt after another second. It was the eldritch scurrying of those fiend-born rats, always questing for new horrors, and determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth's centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players.
  • Lykke Veruphas quoted4 years ago
    As I have said, I moved in on 16 July 1923. My household consisted of seven servants and nine cats, of which latter species I am particularly fond. My eldest cat, "Nigger-Man", was seven years old and had come with me from my home in Bolton, Massachusetts;
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