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-->--''Literature/TheHellboundHeart''

->''After absoring a huge amount of Amrita, John Dee transformed into this large yokai. Hundreds of eyes cover its body, even the tentacle-like tips of its hair. It is an embodiment of wicked ambition, utterly devoid of humanity''
-->--Character bio on '''John Dee/Hundred Eyes''', ''VideoGame/{{Nioh}}''

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-->--''Literature/TheHellboundHeart''

->''After absoring a huge amount of Amrita, John Dee transformed into this large yokai. Hundreds of eyes cover its body, even the tentacle-like tips of its hair. It is an embodiment of wicked ambition, utterly devoid of humanity''
-->--Character bio on '''John Dee/Hundred Eyes''', ''VideoGame/{{Nioh}}''
-->--''Literature/TheHellboundHeart''
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->''"After absoring a huge amount of Amrita, John Dee transformed into this large yokai. Hundreds of eyes cover its body, even the tentacle-like tips of its hair. It is an embodiment of wicked ambition, utterly devoid of humanity"''

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->''"After ->''After absoring a huge amount of Amrita, John Dee transformed into this large yokai. Hundreds of eyes cover its body, even the tentacle-like tips of its hair. It is an embodiment of wicked ambition, utterly devoid of humanity"''humanity''
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-->--''Literature/TheHellboundHeart''

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-->--''Literature/TheHellboundHeart''-->--''Literature/TheHellboundHeart''

->''"After absoring a huge amount of Amrita, John Dee transformed into this large yokai. Hundreds of eyes cover its body, even the tentacle-like tips of its hair. It is an embodiment of wicked ambition, utterly devoid of humanity"''
-->--Character bio on '''John Dee/Hundred Eyes''', ''VideoGame/{{Nioh}}''
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->And then, light. It came from ''them:'' from the quartet of cenobites who now, with the wall sealed behind them, occupied the room. A fitful phosphorescence, [[BioluminscenceIsCool like the glow of deep-sea fishes]]: blue, cold, charmless. It struck [[BlackSheep Frank]] that he had never once wondered what they would look like. His imagination, though fertile when it came to trickery and theft, as impoverished in other regards. The skill to picture these eminences was beyond then, so he had not even tried.

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->And then, light. It came from ''them:'' from the quartet of cenobites who now, with the wall sealed behind them, occupied the room. A fitful phosphorescence, [[BioluminscenceIsCool [[BioluminescenceIsCool like the glow of deep-sea fishes]]: blue, cold, charmless. It struck [[BlackSheep Frank]] that he had never once wondered what they would look like. His imagination, though fertile when it came to trickery and theft, as impoverished in other regards. The skill to picture these eminences was beyond then, so he had not even tried.
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-->--''ComicBook/FallOfCthulhu: The Fugue''

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-->--''ComicBook/FallOfCthulhu: The Fugue''Fugue''

->And then, light. It came from ''them:'' from the quartet of cenobites who now, with the wall sealed behind them, occupied the room. A fitful phosphorescence, [[BioluminscenceIsCool like the glow of deep-sea fishes]]: blue, cold, charmless. It struck [[BlackSheep Frank]] that he had never once wondered what they would look like. His imagination, though fertile when it came to trickery and theft, as impoverished in other regards. The skill to picture these eminences was beyond then, so he had not even tried.
->Why then was he so distressed to set eyes upon them? Was it the scars that covered every inches of their bodies, [[MalevolentMutilation the flesh cosmetically punctured and sliced and infibulated, then dusted down with ash]]? Was it the smell of vanilla they brought with them, the sweetness of which did little to disguise [[EvilSmellsBad the stench beneath]]? Or was it that, as the light grew and he scanned them more closely, he saw nothing of joy or even humanity in their maimed faces: only [[HorrorHunger desperation and an appetite]] that [[BringMyBrownPants made his bowels ache to be voided]].
-->--''Literature/TheHellboundHeart''
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-->--''ComicBook/FallOfCthulhu: Fugue''

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-->--''ComicBook/FallOfCthulhu: The Fugue''
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-->--''[[Creator/JohnConnolly The Hollow King]]''

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-->--''[[Creator/JohnConnolly The Hollow King]]''King]]''

->'''[[KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge The Harlot]]:''' My, your ignorance is so delightfully sweet. Imagine how delicious [[MindRape your education]] could be,
->'''Cy:''' Keep your distance, lady.
->'''The Harlot:''' Heh heh, Cy, love... don't ever mistake me for a lady.
-->--''ComicBook/FallOfCthulhu: Fugue''

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->Man #1: Chief, you mind explaining to me why a camper is here talking about a little boy climbing into your observation tower?
->Chief: He was dressed like he was an admiral '''and''' a mistake.
->Voice over Radio: AIEEEEE
->Man #1: Chief, you'll have to explain later. My map just started bleeding.
->Chief: W-what?
->Popsicle Pete: '''LOOK WEST. SEE THAT EVEN THE DEAD CAN BEG.'''
->Chief: Did you open a portal between my world and yours? Is that what I'm looking at?
->Popsicle Pete: '''"Your world." WHAT HUMOR YOU CREATURES HAVE.'''

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->Man #1: ->'''Man #1:''' Chief, you mind explaining to me why a camper is here talking about a little boy climbing into your observation tower?
->Chief: ->'''Chief:''' He was dressed like he was an admiral '''and''' a mistake.
->Voice ->'''Voice over Radio: Radio:''' AIEEEEE
->Man #1: ->'''Man #1:''' Chief, you'll have to explain later. My map just started bleeding.
->Chief: ->'''Chief:''' W-what?
->Popsicle Pete: ->'''Popsicle Pete:''' '''LOOK WEST. SEE THAT EVEN THE DEAD CAN BEG.'''
->Chief: ->'''Chief:''' Did you open a portal between my world and yours? Is that what I'm looking at?
->Popsicle Pete: '''"Your world.->'''Popsicle Pete:''' '''"YOUR WORLD." WHAT HUMOR YOU CREATURES HAVE.'''



->''"He is a wound in the Force, more presence than flesh, and in his wake life dies… sacrificing itself to his hunger."''

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->''"He is a wound in the Force, more presence than flesh, [[WalkingWasteland and in his wake life dies… dies]]... sacrificing itself to his hunger."''



-->-- '''The creation of Cruella De Vil, unused song for Disney's''', ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''

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-->-- '''The creation of Cruella De Vil, unused song for Disney's''', ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''

->As the courtier watched, the king on the ground shed his boots, and then his clothing, and finally his skin and the flesh beneath, the two halves falling away like the membrane of a snake. Standing in the clearing was no longer the king, but a being with a [[LeanAndMean wretched, twisted body]] and a deformed skull, and [[SinisterSchnoz a nose that was more like the beak of a carrion bird]] than the organ of a man.
->And though the courtier had never before laid eyes on this creature, still he knew his name, for every land had heard tales of [[Literature/TheBookOfLostThings the Crooked Man]]. Some claimed he was the union of an [[EldritchAbomination old, violent god]] and a human woman, and had torn his way out of his mother's womb at the time of his birth, killing her in the process. Others said he had no such origin, but had come into existence with the dark stuff of the universe. He had always been, they whispered, and would always be. In the end, all that was certain about the Crooked Man was the harm he meant to living things, and the joy he took in their torment.
->Beside him, his horse began to shy and whinny in panic, [[AnimalsHateHim terrified by the transformation]], for all creatures fear predators and the Crooked Man was the greatest predator of all.
-->--''[[Creator/JohnConnolly The Hollow King]]''
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That belched up flame and smoke
I saw their test sorcery begin
Every witch performs some gesture in trying to invoke
Some creature beast or monster from within
Then from this pit emerged great vampire bats
And hissing snakes and vicious snarling rats

All at once the pit erupted
And to my shock surprise
There stood a woman with her arm out spread
She was staring at the witches
And when she caught their eyes
They all cried "CRUELLA" and fell dead
With panic running up and down my spine
I saw Cruella's eyes drift up to mine."''

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That ->That belched up flame and smoke
I ->I saw their test sorcery begin
Every ->Every witch performs some gesture in trying to invoke
Some ->Some creature beast or monster from within
Then ->Then from this pit emerged great vampire bats
And ->And hissing snakes and vicious snarling rats

All ->All at once the pit erupted
And ->And to my shock surprise
There ->There stood a woman with her arm out spread
She ->She was staring at the witches
And ->And when she caught their eyes
They ->They all cried "CRUELLA" and fell dead
With ->With panic running up and down my spine
I ->I saw Cruella's eyes drift up to mine."''
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-->-- '''Visas Marr perfectly sums up Darth Nihilus''', ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''

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-->-- '''Visas Marr perfectly sums up Darth Nihilus''', ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''

->''"All around an evil carpet
That belched up flame and smoke
I saw their test sorcery begin
Every witch performs some gesture in trying to invoke
Some creature beast or monster from within
Then from this pit emerged great vampire bats
And hissing snakes and vicious snarling rats

All at once the pit erupted
And to my shock surprise
There stood a woman with her arm out spread
She was staring at the witches
And when she caught their eyes
They all cried "CRUELLA" and fell dead
With panic running up and down my spine
I saw Cruella's eyes drift up to mine."''
-->-- '''The creation of Cruella De Vil, unused song for Disney's''', ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''
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-->-- Cracked,[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-most-baffling-food-mascots-all-time_p3/ The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All Time]]

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-->-- Cracked,[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-most-baffling-food-mascots-all-time_p3/ The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All Time]]Time]]

->''"He is a wound in the Force, more presence than flesh, and in his wake life dies… sacrificing itself to his hunger."''
-->-- '''Visas Marr perfectly sums up Darth Nihilus''', ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''
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-->-- [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-most-baffling-food-mascots-all-time/ The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All Time]]

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-->-- [[http://www.Cracked,[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-most-baffling-food-mascots-all-time/ com/blog/the-8-most-baffling-food-mascots-all-time_p3/ The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All Time]]
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-->-- '''King Vendrick''', ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII''

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-->-- '''King Vendrick''', ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII''''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII''

->Man #1: Chief, you mind explaining to me why a camper is here talking about a little boy climbing into your observation tower?
->Chief: He was dressed like he was an admiral '''and''' a mistake.
->Voice over Radio: AIEEEEE
->Man #1: Chief, you'll have to explain later. My map just started bleeding.
->Chief: W-what?
->Popsicle Pete: '''LOOK WEST. SEE THAT EVEN THE DEAD CAN BEG.'''
->Chief: Did you open a portal between my world and yours? Is that what I'm looking at?
->Popsicle Pete: '''"Your world." WHAT HUMOR YOU CREATURES HAVE.'''
-->-- [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-most-baffling-food-mascots-all-time/ The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All Time]]
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->'' And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences – of electricity and psychology — and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. Never before had the screams of nightmare been such a public problem; now the wise men almost wished they could forbid sleep in the small hours, that the shrieks of cities might less horribly disturb the pale, pitying moon as it glimmered on green waters gliding under bridges, and old steeples crumbling against a sickly sky.''

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->'' And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences - of electricity and psychology -- and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. Never before had the screams of nightmare been such a public problem; now the wise men almost wished they could forbid sleep in the small hours, that the shrieks of cities might less horribly disturb the pale, pitying moon as it glimmered on green waters gliding under bridges, and old steeples crumbling against a sickly sky.''



->'' "I have felt your restlessness, Selene. That part of you that was born of Sesqua's shadow is growing dormant; and that other portion, spawned beyond the cosmic chaos, is flexing its vibrant muscle. The star-stuff that forms so much a part of your being longs for home. It calls to you as you have, just this afternoon, summoned it. You ache to sit with your Elder Sibling beside the entropic throne of Ultimate Disorder. The Boundless One scents you, and calls you. The universe sizzles with the waves of his dreaming. Psychic activity has increased with supernatural alacrity, here in this valley and - I feel it in my old bones - throughout this haunted globe." ''

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->'' "I have felt your restlessness, Selene. That part of you that was born of Sesqua's shadow is growing dormant; and that other portion, spawned beyond the cosmic chaos, is flexing its vibrant muscle.muscles. The star-stuff that forms so much a part of your being longs for home. It calls to you as you have, just this afternoon, summoned it. You ache to sit with your Elder Sibling beside the entropic throne of Ultimate Disorder. The Boundless One scents you, and calls you. The universe sizzles with the waves of his dreaming. Psychic activity has increased with supernatural alacrity, here in this valley and - I feel it in my old bones - throughout this haunted globe." ''
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-->-- ''Pearlene Parcell'', ''Series/ThirtyRock''


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-->-- ''Pearlene Parcell'', '''Pearlene Parcell''', ''Series/ThirtyRock''

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->''Oh, he's always been a special boy. I remember the day he was born, he looked up at me and he said "Momma, I am not a person. My body is just a flesh vessel for an immortal being whose name, if you heard it, would make you lose your mind".''
-->-- ''Pearlene Parcell'', ''Series/ThirtyRock''

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-->-- '''Creator/WHPugmire''', "Past the Gates of Deepest Slumber" (from ''[[CthulhuMythos The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams]]'')

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-->-- '''Creator/WHPugmire''', "Past the Gates of Deepest Slumber" (from ''[[CthulhuMythos ''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams]]'')
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-->--Image notes on '''Ur-Shulgi, The Shepherd,''' ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Children Of The Night''

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-->--Image notes on '''Ur-Shulgi, The Shepherd,''' ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Children Of The Night''Night''

->''"Drangleic will fall, the fire will fade, and the souls of old will reemerge. With Dark unshackled, a curse will be upon us... and men will take their true shape..."''
-->-- '''King Vendrick''', ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII''
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-->--Image notes on '''Ur-Shulgi, The Shepard,''' ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Children Of The Night''

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-->--Image notes on '''Ur-Shulgi, The Shepard,''' Shepherd,''' ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Children Of The Night''
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->[[TimeAbyss Time has not been kind to]] Ur-Shulgi, nor have the ravages of the beast within it or the numerous enemies it has challenged. It looks nothing so much as a [[UndeadChild scarred, burnt child]], [[PhysicalGod a young god born from fire and violence]]. Its skin, obsidian-black with age, displays a [[CoveredWithScars lattice of scars]], some of which weep blood when the Methuselah becomes agitated. Here and there, bits of bone and sinew protrude from beneath its skin, as if its body has been flayed. Additionally, Ur-Shulgi's eyes have [[EyeScream been either gouged or burned away]], though [[BlindSeer it claims to see without hindrance]]. [...] Its voice [[EvilSoundsRaspy seems to billow up from the depths of a dry desert well]]; surprisingly to some, Ur-Shulgi is perfectly fluent in any modern language in which it is addressed. It normally remains motionless when conversing with its childer or other "Kindred," unless it wishes to make a rhetorical point through a cat-like flash of violence. If it absolutely has to anything other than kill, it does not move so much as [[FlashStep flicker from point to point]].
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Children Of The Night''

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->[[TimeAbyss Time has not been kind to]] Ur-Shulgi, [[DragonInChief Ur-Shulgi]], nor have the ravages of the beast within it or the numerous enemies it has challenged. It looks nothing so much as a [[UndeadChild scarred, burnt child]], [[PhysicalGod a young god born from fire and violence]]. Its skin, obsidian-black with age, displays a [[CoveredWithScars lattice of scars]], some of which weep blood when the Methuselah becomes agitated. Here and there, bits of bone and sinew protrude from beneath its skin, as if its body has been flayed. Additionally, Ur-Shulgi's eyes have [[EyeScream been either gouged or burned away]], though [[BlindSeer it claims to see without hindrance]]. [...] Its voice [[EvilSoundsRaspy seems to billow up from the depths of a dry desert well]]; surprisingly to some, Ur-Shulgi is [[{{Omniglot}} perfectly fluent in any modern language in which it is addressed.addressed]]. It normally remains motionless when conversing with its childer or other "Kindred," unless it wishes to make a rhetorical point through a cat-like flash of violence. If it absolutely has to do anything other than kill, it does not move so much as [[FlashStep flicker from point to point]].
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade -->--Image notes on '''Ur-Shulgi, The Shepard,''' ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Children Of The Night''
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-->-- '''Creator/WHPugmire''', "Past the Gates of Deepest Slumber" (from ''[[CthulhuMythos The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams]]'')

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-->-- '''Creator/WHPugmire''', "Past the Gates of Deepest Slumber" (from ''[[CthulhuMythos The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams]]'')Dreams]]'')

->[[TimeAbyss Time has not been kind to]] Ur-Shulgi, nor have the ravages of the beast within it or the numerous enemies it has challenged. It looks nothing so much as a [[UndeadChild scarred, burnt child]], [[PhysicalGod a young god born from fire and violence]]. Its skin, obsidian-black with age, displays a [[CoveredWithScars lattice of scars]], some of which weep blood when the Methuselah becomes agitated. Here and there, bits of bone and sinew protrude from beneath its skin, as if its body has been flayed. Additionally, Ur-Shulgi's eyes have [[EyeScream been either gouged or burned away]], though [[BlindSeer it claims to see without hindrance]]. [...] Its voice [[EvilSoundsRaspy seems to billow up from the depths of a dry desert well]]; surprisingly to some, Ur-Shulgi is perfectly fluent in any modern language in which it is addressed. It normally remains motionless when conversing with its childer or other "Kindred," unless it wishes to make a rhetorical point through a cat-like flash of violence. If it absolutely has to anything other than kill, it does not move so much as [[FlashStep flicker from point to point]].
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Children Of The Night''
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-->-- '''Creator/WHPugmire''', "Past the Gates of Deepest Slumber" (from ''The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams'')

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-->-- '''Creator/WHPugmire''', "Past the Gates of Deepest Slumber" (from ''The ''[[CthulhuMythos The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams'')Dreams]]'')
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->'' Dr. Armitage, associating what he was reading with what he had heard of Dunwich and its brooding presences, and of Wilbur Whateley and his dim, hideous aura that stretched from a dubious birth to a cloud of probable matricide, felt a wave of fright as tangible as a draught of the tomb's cold clamminess. The bent, goatish giant before him seemed like the spawn of another planet or dimension; like something only partly of mankind, and linked to black gulfs of essence and entity that stretch like titan phantasms beyond all spheres of force and matter, space and time.''

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->'' Dr. Armitage, associating [[TomeOfEldritchLore what he was reading reading]] with what he had heard of Dunwich [[TownWithADarkSecret Dunwich]] and its brooding presences, and of Wilbur Whateley and his dim, hideous aura that stretched from a dubious birth to a cloud of probable matricide, felt a wave of fright as tangible as a draught of the tomb's cold clamminess. The bent, goatish giant before him seemed like the spawn of another planet or dimension; like something only partly of mankind, and linked to black gulfs of essence and entity that stretch like titan phantasms beyond all spheres of force and matter, space and time.''
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-->-- '''Creator/HPLovecraft''', "Nyarlathotep"

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-->-- '''Creator/HPLovecraft''', "Nyarlathotep""Nyarlathotep"

->'' "I have felt your restlessness, Selene. That part of you that was born of Sesqua's shadow is growing dormant; and that other portion, spawned beyond the cosmic chaos, is flexing its vibrant muscle. The star-stuff that forms so much a part of your being longs for home. It calls to you as you have, just this afternoon, summoned it. You ache to sit with your Elder Sibling beside the entropic throne of Ultimate Disorder. The Boundless One scents you, and calls you. The universe sizzles with the waves of his dreaming. Psychic activity has increased with supernatural alacrity, here in this valley and - I feel it in my old bones - throughout this haunted globe." ''
-->-- '''Creator/WHPugmire''', "Past the Gates of Deepest Slumber" (from ''The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams'')
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->'' And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences – of electricity and psychology — and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. Never before had the screams of nightmare been such a public problem; now the wise men almost wished they could forbid sleep in the small hours, that the shrieks of cities might less horribly disturb the pale, pitying moon as it glimmered on green waters gliding under bridges, and old steeples crumbling against a sickly sky.

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->'' And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences – of electricity and psychology — and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. Never before had the screams of nightmare been such a public problem; now the wise men almost wished they could forbid sleep in the small hours, that the shrieks of cities might less horribly disturb the pale, pitying moon as it glimmered on green waters gliding under bridges, and old steeples crumbling against a sickly sky.''
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-->-- '''Creator/HPLovecraft''', ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror''

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-->-- '''Creator/HPLovecraft''', ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror''''Literature/TheDunwichHorror''

->'' And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences – of electricity and psychology — and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. Never before had the screams of nightmare been such a public problem; now the wise men almost wished they could forbid sleep in the small hours, that the shrieks of cities might less horribly disturb the pale, pitying moon as it glimmered on green waters gliding under bridges, and old steeples crumbling against a sickly sky.
-->-- '''Creator/HPLovecraft''', "Nyarlathotep"
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-->-- '''Creator/ArthurMachen''', ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan''

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-->-- '''Creator/ArthurMachen''', ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan''''Literature/TheGreatGodPan''

->'' "What I said Mary would see she saw, but I forgot that no human eyes can look on such a sight with impunity. And I forgot, as I have just said, that when the house of life is thus thrown open, there may enter in that for which we have no name, and human flesh may become the veil of a horror one dare not express. I played with energies which I did not understand, you have seen the ending of it. Helen Vaughan did well to bind the cord about her neck and die, though the death was horrible. The blackened face, the hideous form upon the bed, changing and melting before your eyes from woman to man, from man to beast, and from beast to worse than beast, all the strange horror that you witness, surprises me but little." ''
-->-- '''Creator/ArthurMachen''', ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan''

->'' Dr. Armitage, associating what he was reading with what he had heard of Dunwich and its brooding presences, and of Wilbur Whateley and his dim, hideous aura that stretched from a dubious birth to a cloud of probable matricide, felt a wave of fright as tangible as a draught of the tomb's cold clamminess. The bent, goatish giant before him seemed like the spawn of another planet or dimension; like something only partly of mankind, and linked to black gulfs of essence and entity that stretch like titan phantasms beyond all spheres of force and matter, space and time.''
-->-- '''Creator/HPLovecraft''', ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror''
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->'' "We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneath which men long ago veiled their knowledge of the most awful, most secret forces which lie at the heart of all things; forces before which the souls of men must wither and die and blacken, as their bodies blacken under the electric current. Such forces cannot be named, cannot be spoken, cannot be imagined except under a veil and a symbol, a symbol to the most of us appearing a quaint, poetic fancy, to some a foolish tale. But you and I, at all events, have known something of the terror that may dwell in the secret place of life, manifested under human flesh; that which is without form taking to itself a form." ''
-->-- '''Creator/ArthurMachen''', ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan''

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