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Howard Lovecraft

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

  • Marцитирует3 года назад
    the ultimate quintessence of unknown and inhuman evil
  • al mцитирует3 года назад
    I had been assured that the old man could do nothing but hint at wild, disjointed, and incredible legends, and I had been warned that the natives made it unsafe to be seen talking with him; yet the thought of this aged witness to the town's decay, with memories going back to the early days of ships and factories, was a lure that no amount of reason could make me resist.
  • Jahandar Joey Wolfцитирует4 года назад
    The mere telling helps me to restore confidence in my own faculties; to reassure myself that I was not the first to succumb to a contagious nightmare hallucination. It helps me, too, in making up my mind regarding a certain terrible step which lies ahead of me.
  • Jahandar Joey Wolfцитирует4 года назад
    "Thar's whar it all begun – that cursed place of all wickedness whar the deep water starts. Gate o' hell – sheer drop daown to a bottom no saoundin'-line kin tech. Ol' Cap'n Obed done it – him that faound aout more'n was good fer him in the Saouth Sea islands.
    "Everybody was in a bad way them days. Trade fallin' off, mills losin' business – even the new ones – an' the best of our menfolks kilt aprivateerin' in the War of 1812 or lost with the Elizy brig an' the Ranger scow – both on 'em Gilman venters.
  • Jahandar Joey Wolfцитирует4 года назад
    No trials, or even definite charges were reported; nor were any of the captives seen thereafter in the regular gaols of the nation. There were vague statements about disease and concentration camps, and later about dispersal in various naval and military prisons, but nothing positive ever developed.

    Никаких судебных процессов или даже определенных обвинений не было сообщено; и никто из пленников не был замечен после этого в обычных тюрьмах страны. Были смутные заявления о болезнях и концентрационных лагерях, а позже о расселении по различным военно-морским и военным тюрьмам, но ничего положительного так и не появилось.

  • Jahandar Joey Wolfцитирует4 года назад
    Keener news-followers, however, wondered at the prodigious number of arrests, the abnormally large force of men used in making them, and the secrecy surrounding the disposal of the prisoners.
  • Jahandar Joey Wolfцитирует4 года назад
    when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting – under suitable precautions – of an enormous number of crumbling, worm-eaten, and supposedly empty houses along the abandoned waterfront.

    когда произошла обширная серия рейдов и арестов, за которыми последовали преднамеренные поджоги и взрывы – при соответствующих мерах предосторожности – огромного количества разрушенных, изъеденных червями и предположительно пустых домов вдоль заброшенной набережной.

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