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Inspirede by "the rats in the walls" by H.P. LovecraftRelated content
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The story hints at humans bred as food for some depraved cult, of cannibalism, and of secrets lying in yet unexplored caverns beyond what those hapless explorers searched. All those skeletons, degenerated and used as food, the butcher shops, the dreams of that filthy swineherd and his drove - and, of course, the spectre rats !
The textual clues of this being a blighted part of the earth, where Nyarlathotep rules. The explorers did not have the courage or the resourses to penetrate deeper into the caverns.....
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Thats great, very detailed!
Itd be cool if you did a drawing of the "demon swine-herd in the twilit grottoe"
What do "you imagin him to look like? I wonder how close it is to my mental picture?
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err... that deamon was described in "rants in the wall"? I really don't remember it...
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noontime, and in the afternoon called again on Capt. Norrys, who became exceedingly interested in what I told him. The odd
incidents -- so slight yet so curious -- appealed to his sense of the picturesque and elicited from him a number of reminiscenses
of local ghostly lore. We were genuinely perplexed at the presence of rats, and Norrys lent me some traps and Paris green,
which I had the servants place in strategic localities when I returned.
I retired early, being very sleepy, but was harassed by dreams of the most horrible sort. I seemed to be looking down from an
immense height upon a twilit grotto, knee-deep with filth, where a white-bearded daemon swineherd drove about with his staff a
flock of fungous, flabby beasts whose appearance filled me with unutterable loathing. Then, as the swineherd paused and
nodded over his task, a mighty swarm of rats rained down on the stinking abyss and fell to devouring beasts and man alike.
From this terrific vision I was abruptly awakened by the motions of (my cat), who had been sleeping as usual across my
feet. This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his claws into
my ankle, unconscious of their effect; for on every side of the chamber the walls were alive with nauseous sound -- the
veminous slithering of ravenous, gigantic rats. There was now no aurora to show the state of the arras -- the fallen section of
which had been replaced - but I was not too frightened to switch on the light.
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the fat white beast is one of the protagonist's assistant during the exploration of the crypt at the end of the story.
That dream was a prophecy of the protagonist's fate.
Ahem... sorry for the terrible English!
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And all this time I thought it was some sort of genetic memory of what was going on there many centuries earlier.
Aint it weird how different people reading the same thing can get totaly different interpretations?
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It's just this the magic of a book!!! ^__^
And more... every time you read the same novel, you'll find something different!
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Bello, who ruled Carcassone and other counties, practically as King of the Pyrenees, bet Gascony and Iberia, c.800 a.d., has descendants to this day. His antecedents are not known, as he kept no personal journal. He is one of the founding gen. in my genealogical charts. The inbreeding of the Iberian royal families is amazing.
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thans so much, koury!
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Amazing drawing....I didn't know if the image was a photo or a drawing until I Zoom it
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No problem man!
Awesome gallery by the way!!
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